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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve seen the growth of events platforms, new social/spatial video environments, live commerce, live classes, fitness and workout applications, and a huge amount of experimentation in education and tutoring, just to name a few.”. “In In the future, video calls will not look like Zoom, and they will be powered by Daily,” she added.

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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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Enhancing Domain-Driven Design Through Collaborative Systems Thinking

Xebia

At the same time, human interactions define the protocols and operational dynamics, encompassing processes, mutual understandings, cultural norms, regulations, and ethical standards of business conduct. culture, ethnicity, gender, society). How Can We Explain the Problem of a Society or an Organizational Context When We Are Part of It?

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Social influence. Social influence is something heavily used in games to increase engagement. Some games allow you to earn achievements and share them on social media. Secondly, by earning badges or achievements which people share on (internal) social platforms, it becomes visible who the go-to persons are on a particular topic.

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Article: Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

InfoQ Culture Methods

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. By Ben Linders, Joy Ebertz, Pablo Fredrikson, Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. A framing of systems as being both social and technical ( sociotechnical! ) is pivotal.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.