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

TechCrunch

Before starting Astro, they worked at the same company — OwnLocal — where they found it was tough to compete against top tech firms for talent. based tech companies. “We prefer a human-first approach that is supported by tech,” she said. But this presented its own challenges.

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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution

Honeycomb

tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0

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

Honeycomb

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. A genuine joy in seeing teammates level up. Working across the stack.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

So small changes were submitted, reviewed, and integrated into the live code base as quickly as possible. The earliest technical problems centered on how to store all that data, and then how to search it. What current – and future – technologies can we use to lower their costs? What causes friction in the customer experience?

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

In this post, we explore the concept of cross-functional teams in product development , discuss the benefits and challenges of running a cross-functional team, and give practical recommendations for building it. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Given that I couldnt give my CEO what he wanted without creating dysfunction in engineering, what could I give him? The CEO, chief product officer, chief technical officer, and I met a month later. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like?

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. As the longer time you spend in it, the more you realize how much more it is about people than about technology. Maybe yes, maybe no.