More and more companies are beginning to examine the role developer experience has in improving engineering productivity and morale. And one company often referenced as a model for developer productivity engineering is LinkedIn—its engineering leadership has invested heavily into reducing time-consuming developer tasks and constructing an internal platform to gauge developer satisfaction on the tools […]
The Value of Connections
LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious
In this week’s #TheLongView: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft
In this week’s The Long View: Spear-phishing causes $540 million loss, a high severity bug in OpenSSL might be “worse than Heartbleed,” and Lennart Poettering is now working for Microsoft.
Ego Panic
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually like to work as a site reliability engineer, there is perhaps no better source than job descriptions. SRE job ads explain what real […]
The Value of Attention
Code Yellow: When Operations Isn’t Perfect
Every now and then, engineering teams will get into trouble for any number of reasons. Sometimes, explosive growth catches the team by surprise. Or, on-call has gotten out of control, with alerts going off every five minutes. Or, development and operations teams simply have stopped seeing eye to eye. Regardless of why, the team is […]
LinkedIn Open-Sources Fossor Log Mining Tool
Over the years there has been a steady flow of technologies developed by web-scale companies that have benefited the larger IT community by becoming open source projects. The latest two examples of this trend are Fossor, a tool for investigating broken hosts and services, and Ascii Etch, a Python library designed to complement Fossor that […]