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

TechCrunch

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development

Apiumhub

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. Break the routine and allow the team to have another perspective on some parts of the project.

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Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Honeycomb

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different. This is why we highly encourage all teams to instrument their code to emit telemetry data. .

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DevOps

The Programmer's Paradox

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. The different teams were scattered all over the planet, so coordinating all of the efforts was vital. The QA team had its own separate repo, and more importantly, they had their own environment configurations for our code as well.

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Your team’s testing practice should assess the entire application, observe the larger story of how it operates when functioning correctly, and raise alarms when deviations are found. Many teams don’t view security testing as part of their testing suite.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

Ourselves: to remind us what we’ve done, and to create an opportunity to reflect on how things have developed since. Our team(s): to give them a broader view of our work, to demonstrate openness about the highs and lows of being a software engineer, and to encourage a growth mindset. Who are personal retrospectives for?