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code-for-a-living November 30, 2020

Does your organization need a developer evangelist?

What does it take to attract developers to your organization and to create an environment internally where they feel empowered to do their best work. One of the most successful strategies is to employ a great developer evangelist, which we’ll shorten to DevEv for brevity’s sake. In an era of remote work, DevEvs might be…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz and Ritika Puri

code-for-a-living November 25, 2020

How to write an effective developer resume: Advice from a hiring manager

Based on reviewing hundreds of resumes per year and researching a book, here are the seven pieces of advice for engineers on writing a resume that represents you as fairly as possible.

Gergely Orosz

code-for-a-living November 23, 2020

The macro problem with microservices

In just 20 years, software engineering has shifted from architecting monoliths with a single database and centralized state to microservices where everything is distributed across multiple containers, servers, data centers, and even continents. Distributing things solves scaling concerns, but introduces a whole new world of problems, many of which were previously solved by monoliths.

Ryland Goldstein Head of Product at Temporal

the-loop November 19, 2020

The Loop: Adding review guidance to the help center

While working on the review queues project, the Public Platform team saw an opportunity to improve the help center and create a space for more canonical articles about reviewing. By adding new, specific review queue help pages, the help center could become a more accessible and useful resource to all of our users.

Lisa Park Product Designer

code-for-a-living November 17, 2020

The complexities—and rewards—of open sourcing corporate software products

Two engineers at Salesforce talk about how they decoupled a complex library from old spaghetti logic, then open sourced that library by creating a new internal process where none existed before.

Demian Brecht and Drew Shafer

code-for-a-living November 9, 2020

Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?

The endless war between Vim and Emacs users has continued ad nauseam over the years. It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change.

John Biggs and Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living November 5, 2020

How to lead with clarity and empathy in the remote world

2020 has brought changes and challenges for everyone—including those in leadership roles. Management style and decision-making have taken on new significance during these testing times as staff’s quality of life—as well as company growth—hang in the balance. In this newly remote world, it can be difficult to figure out the best ways to support and…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz and Ben Popper

code-for-a-living November 2, 2020

What’s so great about Go?

We explore the traits that have led to the rising popularity of the Go programming language.

John Biggs and Ben Popper