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As engineering organizations grow and add more complexity with team members at different levels of experience, they also need to create clarity: the list of job levels, and what each role does. Done well, a career ladder can limit bias and provide a framework for hiring, paying, and promoting. Note: The articles below are often an introduction to the company's level guide, and the actual career ladder is a PDF or spreadsheet linked to from the article.

Talk all you want to about the importance of strategy or operational efficiency, but the truth is that companies succeed because they…

Upgrade your user, not your product. Don’t build better cameras — build better photographers.

Ops is hard. What have learned so far?

The software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too.

Scrapping the persona and approaching product design in a different way

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. - Alan Perlis

Let’s be honest. When you read this post’s title, you thought it was obvious. Yet, most people don’t follow this simple piece of advice. You know that too, a...

Visit http://jobstobedone.org for more info. also you can find the Jobs to be Done community at the #JTBD on twitter. Online Course to learn how we find the JTBD through Interviews: http://learn.jobstobedone.org/ (thanks Kijuyswe2134)

Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovators and how to hire a milkshake. from the University Of Phoenix Lecture Series http://www.phoenix.edu/lectures.html

Most of us using Chrome at moment either used to use Firefox back in the day or are too young to know about this… At least according to…

In this article, “remote development environments” refer to AWS EC2 instances where engineers make code changes and can see a running Slack application with those changes. For years, engineers at Slack isolated and tested their changes by running microcosms of the Slack application on their local computers. This was difficult for many reasons: it involved […]

Kubernetes is driven by an HTTP API server which allows complete configuration and control of Kubernetes runtime. Therefore, securing access to the API server is one of the most critical security controls to ensure resilient Kubernetes in production.

A guide to understanding digital & physical product design for startups

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web appli...

Documentation for GitLab Community Edition, GitLab Enterprise Edition, Omnibus GitLab, and GitLab Runner.

This was Gusto's system graph. Each of the black rectangles you see here is a subsystem within Gusto's biggest Rails monolith, and the red arrows are where one subsystem talks to another. As our business grew, folks started having a hard time making large changes in our codebase. Initially, we

Things You Should Know About Indexes and Transactions. This post covers internal workings of indexes and transactions of RDBMSs.

Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

Startups.fyi is a curated database and weekly newsletter for startup founders and aspiring entrepreneurs that features the best free tools and resources to help you build, launch & grow your startup.

Engineering notes about system design and software architectures explained by engineers for engineers.

How do you quickly influence a large, complex company that’s set in its ways?

A list of lesser-known websites to provide you with maximum value in your software development journey.

Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...

An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.

Real-time thumbnail generation is a surprisingly helpful and complex task to do at scale. We implemented it by using AWS Lambda.