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

TechCrunch

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 If the worst-case scenario comes to pass, the talent gap could become more severe in the coming years, with the U.S. million by 2030.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

Netflix Tech

Dhevi joined Netflix in July 2020 and is one of many Data Engineers who have onboarded remotely during the pandemic. In this post, Dhevi talks about her passion for data engineering and taking on a new role during the pandemic. One great thing about working with data is the impact you can create as an engineer.

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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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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

In this post, we explore the concept of cross-functional teams in product development , discuss the benefits and challenges of running a cross-functional team, and give practical recommendations for building it. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing.

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. Like you need tools that respect that responsibility, that respect your time. I guess is what I would say. That’s great.

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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution

Honeycomb

While helpful in pinpointing known-unknowns, it impeded the team’s ability to explore the workings of the software, particularly in uncovering unknown-unknowns. It also fell short in supporting an engineering culture of ownership and curiosity within the organization, exacerbated by the pricing model.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.