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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Now we rely on others to manage massive data centers where we borrow small slices of virtual space on shared hardware, traveling over shared networks, all in a system we call the cloud. Managing that interaction with the cloud is part of what cloud engineering is all about.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

Netflix Tech

Before Netflix, Dhevi was a software engineer at Two Sigma, where she was most recently on a data engineering team responsible for bringing in datasets from a variety of different sources for research and trading purposes. The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

must improve the maintainability and readability of the codebase for future travels, and 3. The worse the initial problem and the more ambitious the refactor, the more likely the refactor is to lead to a negative outcome. For a refactor to succeed it 1. must actually ship, 2.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne

Netflix Tech

In this post, Samuel talks about his journey from being a clinical researcher to supporting data engineering teams. Before Netflix, Samuel worked at Travelers Insurance in the Data Science & Engineering space, implementing real-time machine learning models to predict severity and complexity at the onset of property claims.

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? Providing travel reimbursements, free food, and other such things are important, but not enough. For example, an engineer who buckled down free food and did not win may go home.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. Links: Twitter: @sfedov. Website: sfedov.com.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

A VP’s words can travel further and carry a heavier weight, and this power has to be wielded with care. People also start to see you less as an individual and more as a general avatar for “management” or “leadership,” with folks in your replies sometimes taking you to task for past bad experiences with other leaders.