Career Development Resources

Why Engineers Make the Best Entrepreneurs w/ Drata's Co-founder & CTO Daniel Marashlian

Join Daniel and Dan Lines as they discuss why engineers can become great leaders as well as signs that you should start your own company

May 17, 2022

by Dan Lines

CORE

· 4,758 Views · 3 Likes

Performing ETL with AWS Glue Interactive Sessions

AWS Glue interactive session eradicates the complexity of setting up the infrastructure by providing serverless interactive access to AWS Glue Jobs through Jupyter Notebooks.

Updated May 17, 2022

by Mudit Chhabra

CORE

· 4,910 Views · 2 Likes

Top Soft Skills to Identify a Great Software Engineer

These interpersonal attributes when corroborated by their technical skills tend to make the greatest software developers of all times.

May 11, 2022

by Mark Williams

· 5,184 Views · 3 Likes

Stupid Things Orgs Do That Kill Productivity w/ Netflix, FloSports & Refactoring.club

Some of the greatest engineering leaders meet to discuss how to unlock full developer potential and how dev culture is being changed as we speak

May 10, 2022

by Dan Lines

CORE

· 5,146 Views · 3 Likes

SRE vs. Platform Engineering: The Key Differences, Explained

What are SREs? What are platform engineers? How is each role similar and different? This article explains the answers to each question.

Updated May 4, 2022

by JP Cheung

· 6,947 Views · 4 Likes

Why 1 Good UX Is Worth 5 Engineers w/ Toast's Brad Pielech

Toast has had an amazing journey over the past two years, and Brad Pielech, Director of Engineering, is here to tell the tale as well as his advice for engineers

May 3, 2022

by Dan Lines

CORE

· 5,068 Views · 4 Likes

Pre-Commit Hooks DevOps Engineer Should Know To Control Kubernetes

Controlling the quality of the source code as early as possible is a good practice. Understand how to apply the same principle to Kubernetes.

Updated April 25, 2022

by Nicolas Giron

· 5,846 Views · 5 Likes

What Is a Data Reliability Engineer, and Do You Really Need One?

As data teams continue to specialize, a new role has emerged: the data reliability engineer. But what is it, and does your team even need one?

April 21, 2022

by Glen Willis

· 3,799 Views · 3 Likes

Imposter Syndrome: The Silent Dream Killer

In a world where devs are increasingly self-taught, it may be easy to negatively compare yourself to those colleagues who have a BS or MS in Computer Science. But don't.

Updated April 12, 2022

by Jody Fitzpatrick

· 32,553 Views · 134 Likes

3 Best Tactics To Prevent Technical Debt as an Engineer

The negative impact of technical debt on businesses is massive. Here are the best ways to prevent and manage technical debt that both startups and enterprise companies can implement today.

March 24, 2022

by Alex Omeyer

· 3,425 Views · 5 Likes

7 Tips To Get Productive Again After Languishing

If you have been languishing for a long period of time, here are 7 tips to get back into your normal groove again and feel even more productive than ever.

March 23, 2022

by Vicky Pham

CORE

· 2,993 Views · 3 Likes

Make Your Team Miserable With These Popular Project-Management Anti-Patterns

If you are a manager who aspires to be truly great at inflicting pain on your team, pay attention! We’ll cover three of the most popular ways.

March 21, 2022

by Jade Rubick

CORE

· 5,621 Views · 11 Likes

Did We Build The Right Thing? That's What UAT Is About.

Non-technical stakeholders are not testers. The often ceremonial UAT stage cannot replace rigorous testing. Constant stakeholder involvement ensures we're building the right thing.

March 20, 2022

by Jasper Sprengers

· 2,762 Views · 5 Likes

How To Hire Remote Developers Successfully

Topics in this post include how to hire remote developers, essential skills for remote work, how to evaluate skills, and more.

March 18, 2022

by Alex Valadzko

· 4,748 Views · 5 Likes

Interview With Tom Granot: Developer Observability, KoolKits, and Reliability

This interview with Lightruns Tom Granot about developer observability explores how it's different, K8S, KoolKits, and the kubectl debug.

March 16, 2022

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 3,375 Views · 5 Likes

On Git and Cognitive Load

Git is complex and translates to cognitive load for developers. Let's look at how to improve upon previous source control systems in a way that makes developers happy.

March 16, 2022

by Sasha Medvedovsky

· 7,234 Views · 11 Likes

The Rise of the Data Reliability Engineer

With ever-growing complexity in the data driving today's dashboards and learning models, maintaining data quality and availability depends on the DRE.

March 15, 2022

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 7,936 Views · 7 Likes