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Planning, executing, and landing refactoring
Slack is the leading global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
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Why GraphQL?
If you don’t know much about GraphQL, you probably just identify it as the hip, shiny new thing companies are adopting to replace their RESTful APIs.
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Everything You Need to Know About OpenAPI 3.0 in Ten Minutes or Less
The OpenAPI spec (formerly known as Swagger Spec) is now in version 3.0 ... but what does that mean to you?
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How to Design Systems and Processes Teams Actually Follow
When we work alone, it’s easy to make sure things come out the way we think is best. But what happens when we need to get an entire team to agree on — and actually use — best practices? What if we have to convince an entire company?
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How to hold career path conversations with developers
Our industry is not the best at preparing developers to grow their careers when they reach the critical point when they have to decide between continuing to work as an individual contributor or moving into management.
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Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems
Have you ever worked on a computer system that was so fragile it was frightening to make changes to? Maybe it was challenging to deploy, difficult to delete code, or changing one piece would cause surprising cascading failures.
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Intersectional & Inclusive Standards for Developers
Give a developer readable code and they can code for a day, teach a developer best practices and coding standards and they can be a valuable addition to any engineering team.
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Increasing code testability
We all, for the most part, invest time in learning new front-end technologies but how much time if any do we put into client-side testing?
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Creating Architecture and Teams at Less-than-Google Scale
Facebook, Google, Uber, LinkedIn, and friends are the rarefied heights of software engineering.
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Better Incident Management to Reduce MTTR
A skilled Incident Commander can improve time to resolution and reduce everyone's stress.