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jacksonpollock | 5 years ago | on: As DevOps takes off, site reliability engineers are flying high

"What we are seeing now and predicting into the future is the rise of site reliability engineer as a title relating to the practice of DevOps and better describing the work to be done. At the time of our writing, there are more than 9,000 open roles for SREs on LinkedIn, a number that is only growing."

jacksonpollock | 5 years ago | on: Y Combinator CEO Faces the Crisis and His Critics – The Information

"Seibel, in an interview with The Information Monday, deflected those complaints, suggesting some came from people who prefer “superelite groups.” He shed light on how the accelerator adjusted to the year’s upheaval, including encouraging founders to focus on breaking even rather than growth at all costs, and showed how the recent graduates resembled earlier founders who had set up companies in a crisis."

jacksonpollock | 5 years ago | on: Slack Hacks: 14 Ideas for Dev and DevOps Workflows in Slack via AWS, Twilio

"The average company loses more than 20% of its productive power to organizational drag. Put Slack in the picture though and development teams using Slack deliver 5% more output overall, with 23% faster time to market, 27% less time needed to test and iterate, and faster identification and resolution of engineering-related bugs, according to IDC research."

jacksonpollock | 5 years ago | on: Would you use a Shared REPL for DevOps?

"The Dev Console is a simple and popular REPL that millions of programmers use every day, but, what many don't know, is that this simple interface is the basis for one of the best ways to program that reaches far beyond the browser. REPL-driven programming, for those who know, is a subtle programming superpower."
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