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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 ” Samira and Astro co-launched Astro as Austin Software in 2018 in an effort to overcome these roadblocks to recruiting developer talent in Latin America, specifically countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. .

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

I took this diagram and drew a red dotted line around each slice referred to as “tech debt” at one point or another. Stakeholders sometimes feel like engineering teams spend a lot of time on tech debt, but once you take the time to unpack all the work in the category, the exact reason for this is obvious.

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How We Define SRE Work

Honeycomb

At Honeycomb, that work is interwoven with actual project assignments (with the platform team) to make sure I stay aware of all the challenges that may exist for our engineers. An additional purpose of the charter is to act as a communication tool.

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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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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

For the sake of concision, I’ll refer to this as a Center of Production Excellence (CoPE). This is analogous to safety departments in organizations that attempt to do resilience engineering. In other words, the goal is to understand an organization from the inside so well that the group can engage in constructive criticism.

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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. Yoz: Ever since then it’s just been referring to cat food. I guess is what I would say. That’s great. Larry: Good.

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Engineering excellence: the art of doing small things really well

Abhishek Tiwari

This practice, while small and often overlooked, can have a significant impact on the overall excellence of a software engineering project. A commit-msg hook can ensure that commit messages adhere to a specific format, perhaps including a reference to a ticket number or following a conventional commit format.