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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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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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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Just as the ladder sets new expectations of engineers, the management track sets new expectations for managers, with material about managing the system rather than just managing the work.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 But this presented its own challenges. If the worst-case scenario comes to pass, the talent gap could become more severe in the coming years, with the U.S. million by 2030.

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

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? We had 24 hours to know each hacker present at Djangothon. by Anagaha, Software Engineer from Suki). We also used Polaroid cameras to click photos of the teams present. The outcome.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. They also asked me to prepare a short presentation about bringing services to production with a Q&A after it. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering. Debt is still a useful concept While tech debt is rarely a helpful label when making the argument to pay down debt, the notion of “debt” remains a useful one in software engineering.