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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. I found myself looking at Honeycomb’s job ad for their first SRE position.

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Shipping Node.js at Netlify

Netlify

operating system and Node/npm versions). They are a fundamental piece in our engineering culture, since they give us the confidence we need to ship to production often with a lower risk of introducing regressions. Automated tests. All of our projects have a suite of automated tests.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

They create an engaging engineering culture. Available at [link] [5] “The Google File System” by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung, presented at ACM SOSP’03, October 19–22, 2003. The term ‘lean’ may not be used, but the shift to digital has become a strategic necessity for a large number of companies.