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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

It is common for people to confuse these two prominent career options – DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer. Role of Software Engineer. Software engineers are responsible for developing software based on the needs of clients. There are many types of software engineers, such as.

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Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science

The Crazy Programmer

Both software engineers and computer scientists are concerned with computer programs and software improvement and various related fields. What is Software Engineering? Software is more than just program code. The final result of software engineering is an effective and reliable software program.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first. We also offer step promotions, such as Software Engineer 1 to Software Engineer 2, which come when the engineer is proportionally far along their way to the next title.)

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. These are just examples — I could go on all day. It costs money and time to hire engineers and train them and getting things done.

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Decoding Code Review and Pull Requests - a handbook for Software Engineers and Tech Leads

Written by Elaine Watanabe, it's a practical e-book with useful examples and references, and a must-read for all tech teams. A complete handbook on implementing a code review culture in your organization.

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MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering

TechCrunch

“This has led us to where we are today, where our mission is to support operational analytics for software engineering teams,” DeVivo said. “If it’s involved in building or shipping software, we’d like to make it possible to query with SQL.” Example pull request (PR) data derived via MergeStat.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

What’s currently broken about training for software engineers? OF: What we want is for engineers to be able to develop themselves professionally using Wilco throughout their careers. OF: The best way developers have to improve their skills today is on the job, but that is both slow and inefficient. What would it look like?