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

Netlify

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. All this within a year of our first Integrations Engineer Paul Osman joining the team!

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. All this within a year of our first Integrations Engineer Paul Osman joining the team!

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

The goal was to simulate a loss of a system so that they could build this adaptive environment, so that they didn’t really have to worry about resiliency as much. This is near and dear to us and so we want to make sure that we’re building resilient systems. If you look at chaos engineering, like.1 How do we do this?

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.