Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Stripe C-Suite Survey As an organisation, there are a whole variety of levers you can pull to significantly improve the quality and speed of your hiring process and notably reduce the costs. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

On OS es with browser competition, sites can recommend browsers with engines that cost less to support or unlock crucial capabilities. However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. Engineering for Speed and Reliability It shouldn’t be treated as a law that teams will clash when there is a dependency between their products, even if there is a big difference in mindset.

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Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Visualising Sociotechnical Architecture as Strategy vs Investment Laying out your technical capabilities on a core domain chart communicates aspects of your technology strategy. But strategy is about making choices, about allocation of resources, choosing to focus on some things at the expense of others. A clear warning sign.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue. Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO. written by Cameron Cundiff. Transcript.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, in various use cases. Acknowledgements Thanks to our Product Manager Ashim Pokharel for driving the strategy and requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The path over which data travels from Titus Job Coordinator to a Titus Gateway cache can be described as a sequence of event queues with different processing speeds: A message generated by the event source may be buffered at any stage. This work can be split into two different steps each with its own unique solution.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. In the CMS selection process, developer experience is not a factor, although successful implementation and ongoing maintenance require developer friendly tooling and support for modern software engineering practices.

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