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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

To wit, one common theme that came from our recent profiles of Expensify and NS1 is the centrality of file sharing (or, illegal file sharing if you are on that side of the fence) and internet infrastructure in the origin stories of the two companies. 1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Yet I gave it a shot, and I joined a team of world-renowned experts in internet delivery. So I built the speed task called fast.com, which is one of the most popular internet testing services today powered by open connect CDN. And as of today, I’m a hands-on engineering leader. So like a third of the internet is there.

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

TechCrunch

“Daily has real platform potential — it’s a great product with stellar engineering culture, coupled with Kwin’s experience building video for the enterprise. Video has become ubiquitous in the way we work, live and interact online, and Daily is going to create a sea-change in the way we use video on the internet.”.

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The internet wouldn’t exist without open source. Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

After that, I joined MySpace back at its peak as a data engineer and got my first taste of data warehousing at internet-scale. What keeps me engaged and enjoying data engineering is giving super-suits and adrenaline shots to analytics engineers and data scientists.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The Internet has been open to public for six years. The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. Consider the internet. That’s when newly minted internet companies tried to grow systems many times larger than any enterprise could manage.

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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. The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.