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

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ?

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

TechCrunch

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. We have specifically chosen the following five areas as they mirror the five main characteristics of Agile organizations, as elucidated in a landmark 2018 McKinsey paper. Continuous state of flux Flexibility ‹-› Stability 5.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, I met with everyone in our engineering organization because I wanted to get to know the people we were working with. During one of those conversations, one of our engineers said to me, “I need to meet my team in person every once in a while to remind myself that they’re actual people.”

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

OverOps (@overopshq) July 11, 2018. The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” link] pic.twitter.com/616uW4OQJu. Development, Operations and Reliability.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

We’re delighted to announce that this round is being led by Headline, a Honeycomb backer since 2018, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, Insight Partners, NextWorld Capital, Storm Ventures, and Industry Ventures. Enabling your team to work better together, through observability, is our ultimate goal.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

Netflix Tech

Still learning We started building Cosmos in 2018 and have been operating in production since early 2019. We are still in mid-journey but we can share a few highlights of what we have learned so far: The Netflix culture played a key role The Netflix engineering culture famously relies on personal judgement rather than top-down control.