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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation

TechCrunch

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. In other words, leadership cares for the forest and not the trees.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Difficulties in Creating Autonomy and Alignment Creating a performance culture of high alignment and high autonomy is not a one-time effort. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture. based workers.

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

Following an 18-month time period of rapid growth, which included seeing from 10 times to 30 times increase in all the metrics the company tracks — overall traffic volume, freemium sign-ups, paid usage and the number of customers scaling applications on top of the platform — Daily today announced $40 million in Series B funding.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

Because of this, it’s especially rewarding for Honeycomb to be recognized recently for the work we do within our metaphorical walls, with Comparably naming us in over ten different categories , including “Best Company Outlook,” “Best Company for Diversity,” “Best Leadership Teams,” and “Best Company Culture.”