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Developer Experience at Netlify

Netlify

I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” At the time, I had never written an article, been to a conference, or participated in open source. As such, when I joined Netlify, the team and I worked to alter our composition and strategy. I thought it sounded amazing.

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Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In the third edition of HackerEarth’s flagship tech conference – Hire 10(1), our keynote speaker from Adobe, Mr. Mino Thomas, used a word I hadn’t heard before in tech recruiting circles. This personality type is loyal, focused, good at long-term projects, and the one that moves the team forward amidst small differences.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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Talks With Software Development Experts Initiative – Part 3

Apiumhub

Welcome to the third and last part of our Talks With Software Development Experts series. As we have mentioned before, this initiative is a section where we interview software engineers and industry experts to learn more about their professions, efforts, hobbies, and perspectives on a variety of tech-related issues. Check them out!

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Scaling Technology and Organizations Together with Randy Shoup

Gitprime

When startups are first setting out, the initial team is small and usually solving relatively discrete (albeit central) problems. But at scale, the quantity and size of the problems grow larger than a single manageable team can handle. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork.

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Through those experiences, she learned to gracefully hire engineers, conduct difficult conversations, and mentor and coach other leaders to do the same. She wasn’t born a manager, though—like many engineering leaders, she started out doing multiple front-end development jobs. I loved it. Sponsoring.

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My Mission

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Bad management and leadership comes from somewhere above you with expectations that came into the company a long time ago. @7:43. Why do I speak at conferences? @9:52. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams.