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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

Honeycomb

But every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. 8/3 – Query engine lambda startup failures : A code change was merged that prevented the lambda-based portion of our query engine from starting. The meta-review.

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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? As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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A Key to Success: Failure with Chaos Engineering

LaunchDarkly

Ana Medina , Chaos Engineer at Gremlin, spoke about how performing Chaos Engineering experiments and celebrating failure helps engineers build muscle memory, spend more time building features and build more resilient complex systems. ” – Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. .”