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How to review code as a junior developer
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Pinterest |
Using code reviews as a way to learn more about a piece of code |
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Experiment Idea Review
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Pinterest |
Idea review, just like code reviews and design reviews |
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Dead Code Society
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Pinterest |
On tombstoning dead code |
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How to write awesome tech specs
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Lyft |
Self-explanatory |
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Communicationg with non-engineers
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Lyft |
Put yourself in their shoes |
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Best time to send emails
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Salesforce |
Interesting experiment and results on effective emailing |
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Server Driven UI (mainly for mobile)
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Yelp |
New UI trend for (mostly) mobile development |
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What is an Engineering Manager
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Yelp |
Self-explanatory |
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Preventing secrets in source code
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Yelp |
Self-explanatory |
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Code review guidelines
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Yelp |
Self-explanatory |
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Undebt: Refactoring 3 million lines of code
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Yelp |
Interesting article on refactoring |
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Innovation in large companies
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Docusign |
How to innovate in a non-start-up environment |
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Ensure the view is worth the climb
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Snowflake |
Is a dollar of cost savings the same as a dollar of revenue generated? |
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What being a musician taught me about programming
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Okta |
Not Every Song Will Be Your Favorite |
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25 years of Javascript and Java
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Okta |
History/timeline of two of your favorite languages |
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The development environment of the future
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Okta |
Futuristic development environment |
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5 engineering stories that make your blood curdle
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Okta |
"Subversion is Maven Me Crazy!" and other interesting software stories |
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Mute Indicator Light for Zoom
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Okta |
Hackathon-ish |
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Okta Software Design Principles
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Okta |
Self-explanatory |
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Why every developer needs to be a generalist?
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Okta |
Generalist vs Specialist argument |
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Keeping tech simple
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Okta |
Self-explanatory |
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Moving fast with high code quality
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Quora |
Self-explanatory |
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One pattern to rule them all
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Twitter |
Spoiler: It's Dependency Injection |
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The testing renaissance
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Twitter |
All about how to test the system |
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Spotify's Autonomous Culture
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Spotify |
Engineers are users, too |
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Kindness in Engineering
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Snapchat |
Lists 7 points to cultivate a culture of positive engineering |
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Building an inclusive codebase
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Airbnb |
Interesting take on inclusivity in codebase |
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What Every Engineer Should Know About Open Source Software Licenses and IP
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Uber |
Informative blog on open sourcing, licensing etc. |
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Team purpose and planning with scrum
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Spotify |
Self-explanatory |
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Golden Path to solve Software fragmentation
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Spotify |
Interesting approach to solve code fragmentation |
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Test flakiness identification
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Spotify |
Unstability and flakiness of tests and solving them |
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Best practices can slow your applications down
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Stack Overflow |
Counter intuitive, yet sensical. Must read. |
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Make good code reviews better
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Stack Overflow |
How to make your code reviews even better? |
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Pros and cons of being an early adopter
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Stack Overflow |
When you start using a brand new, shiny technology, talk about it |
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Brutal lifecycle of javascript frameworks
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Stack Overflow |
Every six months or so, a new one pops up, claiming that it has revolutionized UI development |
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Most disliked programming languages
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Stack Overflow |
No spoilers :) |
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Are hotdogs sandwiches? And other naming conventions
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Square |
Stressing the importance of naming conventions |
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Becoming an organizational leader
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Square |
Good article on leadership |
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Engineering manager philosophies
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Square |
Types of engineering management |
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How to be a more influential engineer
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Square |
Self-explanatory |
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Keeping your own Hype Doc
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Square |
Only YOU know 100% of what you are doing! |
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A Silent Meeting is worth a thousand words
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Square |
Tips on making meetings more efficient |
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Production testing with long canaries
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LinkedIn |
Canary testing and deployment |
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Setting up engineering for long term success
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Instagram |
Self-explanatory |
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Quality engineering for a shared codebase
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BBC |
Quality is paramount! |
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Art of automating automation
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Paypal |
Anything that can be automated, should be, including automating automation |
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Documentation Driven Design
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Paypal |
Write your technical documentation first. Then let it drive the project |
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Think before ignoring ACID and CAP
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Paypal |
Bottomline: Don't throw away ACID or CAP |
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Building accessible front-ends
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Capital One |
Nice article on making your apps/website accessible |
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Inllustrated enterprise release checklist
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Capital One |
Though non-comprehensive, a good place to start for managing releases |
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Becoming a better front-end developer
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Capital One |
Self-explanatory, although a heads-up would be that this post is more design oriented |
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Choosing the right programming language for your team
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Capital One |
There is no one answer! |
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Agile meets Design Thinking
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Capital One |
Self-explanatory |
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5 ways I grew my career as a quiet person
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Thoughtworks |
Interesting article on the diversity of developer personalities |
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Chaos Engineering
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Thoughtworks |
Not to be confused with chaos in engineering :) |
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The changing economics of Open Source
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Thoughtworks |
Open Source software and their support based economics (Think Confluent) |
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Architectural Risk Management
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Thoughtworks |
A quick read before you architect your next software project |
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The three hats of a technology leader
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Thoughtworks |
Spoiler: Enabler, Ambassador, Influencer |
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Deadline -> cause and effect
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Thoughtworks |
Thriving in a deadline driven environment |
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3 Guidelines to Reduce Implementation Flaws
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Groupon |
Bottomline: Tests don't lie! |
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Journey of an Engineering Manager
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Asana |
Self-explanatory |
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Pluralization mistakes
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Asana |
Very interesting edge-case of pluralization in codebase |
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Uplevel your code review skills
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Asana |
Self-explanatory |
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Handling flaky tests, automatically
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Slack |
Automating fixing failing/unstable tests |
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Balancing velocity and safety in CICD
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Slack |
What to and what not to of CICD |
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On empathy and Pull Requests
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Slack |
An interesting take on managing pull requests |
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Hackathons to drive innovation
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Doordash |
Clearly, hackathons should become the norm more than they're now |
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3 Lessons for the New Software Engineer
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Redfin |
Prioritize for impact, not perfection. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, ever. Embrace uncertainty. |
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Measure job satisfaction to measure eng productivity
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Redfin |
A very unusual metric for measuring productivity, but certainly an interesting take |
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Neurodiversity Pride Month
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Robinhood |
Spreading awareness on Neurodiversity |
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The rise of Enterprise chatbots
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Workday |
History and impact of enterprise chatbots |
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Slow down to go faster
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Palantir |
An article full of interesting anecdotes |
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Accessibility engineering
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23AndMe |
Accessibility of your apps |
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So you're a senior engineer. Now what?
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Wework |
Decent though a generic read for all new Senior Engineers |
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Not everyone is a manager
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Wework |
And it's okay! |
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8 Non-Technical Books that will make you a better engineer
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Triplebyte |
Neat collection of book recommendations |
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Coaching Tips from the Masters
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Intuit |
Self-explanatory |
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Road towards Self-Healing systems
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Adobe |
Good article on achieving Eventual consistency |
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The ultimate load test
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Tinder |
FYI: Load test is different from scale test is different from perf test |
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Designing the Globe
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Stripe |
A walkthrough project |
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Solving sphagetti code
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Affirm |
On code refactoring |
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What exactly is low coupling high cohesion
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Wix |
Self-explanatory |
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Solving Hard Problems with Soft Skills
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Instacart |
Hard skills: teachable abilities that can be defined and measured. Soft skills: personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively. |
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Finding Success as an SDET
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Glassdoor |
Self-explanatory |
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Running a ludicrously complex project
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Atlassian |
Self-explanatory |
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Scaling a SaaS company
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Monday |
Bottomline: Small changes make big impact |
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Conducting Blameless Incident Reviews
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Udemy |
Good take on doing RCAs |
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Enforcing Code Ownership
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Udemy |
Self-explanatory |
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Logging vs Instrumentation
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New Relic |
Summary: Choose instrumentation over logging |
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Confidence in your Code
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C3 AI |
The value of testing your code in all ways possible |
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Pull Request Best Practices
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C3 AI |
Self-explanatory |
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How to sell SLOs to Engineering Directors
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Brex |
Explains the value of an SLO culture |