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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. OpenSesame had a pretty innovative approach to career development before I joined. It involved a spreadsheet where engineers would gather evidence of their skills. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And these potentials are the stepping stone to open innovation. Open innovation is about combining internal and external resources to create efficient and beneficial solutions.” – Dr. Matt Chapman, Mindjet. HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. by Anagaha, Software Engineer from Suki).

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Enhancing Domain-Driven Design Through Collaborative Systems Thinking

Xebia

Domain-driven design (DDD) has emerged in software engineering as a methodology for tackling complex domain problems by connecting the implementation to an evolving model. Resistance to change, entrenched organizational cultures, and the theories’ complexity can pose significant barriers.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future

Honeycomb

TRY NOW Tools like AI and advanced development platforms are taking over more routine engineering tasks, allowing engineers to focus on higher-level problem-solving and customer-centric innovations. is at the heart of this transformation, driving innovation and excellence in the modern engineering role.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly enough to build and deliver your wondrous innovations. finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Hiring is so hard?—?finding