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Is It Possible to Run a 100% Remote Team?
Jeremy Edberg discusses remote teams and the pitfalls they’ve run into, the parts that are working well, and a summary of their research talking to other fully or partially remote teams.
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Creating a Debt-aware Culture
Aaratee Rao discusses some practical and real world examples of how some well-known hyper growth companies accumulated and managed technical debt.
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Quora's Approach to Moving Fast Sustainably
Nikhil Garg talks about the mental frameworks, processes and tools that allow Quora to strike a good balance and move fast sustainably, both in the short-term and in the long-term.
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Culture and the Games People Play
Roy Rapoport discusses the power of alignment (or lack thereof) using real-world examples, his experience introducing Python in production, and the organizational structures and culture within Netflix
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Nordstrom’s 114-year-old Culture in the Tech Era
Sarah Lake Hagan explains what NorDNA is, how they introduced this concept to the Nordstrom Technology teams, and shows concrete examples of how the employees have embraced this culture.
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React Native in Production
Adam Miskiewicz goes beyond the React Native docs and talks about best practices for building responsive and production-ready React Native applications with Redux, Relay, and GraphQL.
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The Case for TypeScript
Mohamed Hegazy provides a guided tour to TypeScript, showing how the language and toolset simplify application-scale JavaScript development.
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Understanding Real-time Conversations on Facebook
Janet Wiener discusses using a data pipeline and graphic visualizations to extract and analyze the Chorus – the aggregated, anonymized voice of the people communicating on Facebook - in real time.
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Engineering for the Long Game
Astrid Atkinson discusses approaches to making sure systems and organizations can support continuous innovation, from breaking systems into microservices to engineering for organizational resilience.
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How to Have Your Causality and Wall Clocks Too
Jon Moore talks about distributed monotonic clocks (DMC) whose timestamps can reflect causality but which have a component that stays close to wall clock time.
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Generics and Java's Evolution
Richard Warburton explains how to make effective use of Generics. Warburton sheds light on the planned changes in Java 10 using practical code examples at every step.
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Life of a Twitter JVM Engineer
Tony Printezis presents how services are deployed and monitored at Twitter, the benefits of using a custom-built JVM, and the challenges of the use of the JVM in an environment like Twitter.