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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? These fine folks architect the scalable build system workflows, edge routing, telemetry, metrics, account management, lambda functions, and so much more that everything depends on. Improving our data pipeline.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying). Congrats to Observe Inc.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying). Congrats to Observe Inc.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

It can be network latency, network flapping, buggy software. If you look at chaos engineering, like.1 Our Chaos Monkey was like a Python script in AWS Lambda. There’s just a lot of lack of diligence, is what I’d call it, in our services. It’s not good software. Things break. Start small.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. The Nature of Software “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s May 27, 1997. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task.