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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.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Indeed, product development and product management, where roadmaps originate and competitive juices flow, is a hotbed of creativity. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead.

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Could the time spent on these activities have been spent developing more valuable features to achieve a more beneficial product goal? When we try to model developer productivity, should we also consider product management efficacy? Even if we see an increase in output, that doesn’t imply an increase in value.

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

Yet, users of those products want a consumer level of simplicity in enterprise software. Unlocking product led growth depends on an easy-to-use, self-explanatory interface. As a product manager, I rank features in my backlog against: How much revenue will this help me get? How hard is it for engineering to build?

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

Netflix Tech

The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. I was pretty skeptical of Netflix’s culture memo at first.

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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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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual. No Q4 code freezes for us.