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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? During my tenure, I have been able to dive into areas that interested me and also added value to the company — performance and scalability.

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Serverless; the next big thing

The Agile Monkey

The technology that will change how we build backend systems forever TL;DR: Serverless is a new approach to backend software development, where new systems can be created out of existing third-party services and tools using lambda functions to glue them together. This will have a huge impact in how we build software.

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The Case for Minimalist Infrastructure

Stacks on Stacks

Every engineering manager should have a ratio in their head of work hours spent in their organization on software engineering vs other related tasks (ops, QA, product management, etc…). In November 2014 Amazon Web Services announced AWS Lambda. Because there were no major missteps, this was nobody’s fault.