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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

New York-based NS1 designs highly redundant DNS and internet traffic performance tools for web applications. Which makes sense of course, since two decades ago, building out the networking and compute capacity of the internet was one of the major engineering challenges of that period in the web’s history.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

Tool chain investments Tool chain investments sound like they should be easy to pitch. Tools make us more productive, and everyone wants more productive engineers, right? But in reality, getting a solid return on investment from bringing in a new tool or an existing one can be a challenge. What’s a payback period?

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. Having experience in the dev tools and monitoring space; being a tools nerd.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

This initial group forms the basis of a sociogram , which can be enriched with information about things like periodic sprint cycles, regular post-incident meetings, widely-adopted standards and tools, and other things that don’t get the grease because they’re not squeaking.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Womersley suggests a first step of moving a team’s discussions into an internet-based tool or platform to level the playing field for your own workforce. Furthermore, her teams use online document tools to issue RFCs and to develop structured, written decision-making that can happen asynchronously.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

user community who sees all the great work we do promoting the Jamstack and developer tooling. 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?