“Cofounder and CEO Dylan Field explains that when he and cofounder Evan Wallace started the company, in 2012, IBM employed one designer for every 72 engineers. Today, IBM has eight engineers to every designer, and that ratio goes to 3:1 on mobile.”— Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com
“A regular face-to-face interview would mean a handful of interviewers have to deal with an enormous number of interviewees. Not only is the system lousy, but also companies have to invest in resources required for conducting those interviews.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“When companies think seriously about their offerings and being able to scale their services, Amazon AWS is the thing in question to use.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“However, potential employers are unlikely to be interested in your 23andme results or in hearing the elevator pitch for your Dungeons & Dragons podcast.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“Companies today generate an overwhelming amount of data, and because of that, many organizations need help accessing, transforming, analyzing and leveraging that data as quickly as possible.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“Data Engineers are a vital part of the technology organization. They are playing a huge role in helping to understand customers and acquire information about the business that can be vital towards making decisions.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“A data warehouse is most commonly used by technology organizations who are dealing with heavy data analysis.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“Kubernetes and its connection with Docker is providing the ability for engineers to service many servers and box setups in extremely easy ways. Kubernetes has created powerful bundles which has equipped ops engineers with everything they need to scale and service setups extremely easily.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“The use of microservices is gaining in popularity when you think about advanced technology-driven products and services. As the need for uptime and advanced features continues to expand, engineers are relying more on microservices. In a nutshell, microservices allows engineers to think about specifi…”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“This might allow devops engineers to manage multiple servers and hosting provisions from one unified portal. It directly competes with Docker and Puppet which are gaining in popularity right now. Ansible was around and established before these other options, though.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.”— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com
“Anycast is the use of routing and addressing policies to affect the most efficient path between a single source and several geographically dispersed targets that "listen" to a service within a receiver group.”— DDI Guru, ddiguru.com
“Having our application logic organized by domain concept has given us improved clarity in the architecture.”— Dan Manges, medium.com
“Until you have measured current performance and determined that current performance is inadequate, “faster” is a totally meaningless word.”— Eno Compton, commandercoriander.net
“A careless approach to a main function can result in needless complexity. Compare two versions of the same main function: before and after. One version is over 400 lines. The other is about 40 lines. That’s an order of magnitude.”— Eno Compton, commandercoriander.net
“A great bug is like a good joke or a riddle – you’re expecting one outcome, but the result veers off in another direction.”— Allison Kaptur, akaptur.com
“How to build a good test suite: 1. Every time you fix a bug, add tests that would have caught it 2. Wait a year or two (There is no step 3.)”— Sophie Alpert, twitter.com
“On agism, I don't think anyone can deny there is a certain amount of agism in the industry. You can just look at the median age of new hires of just about every Silicon Valley company. I suspect many, if not most, have median hiring ages well below 30.”— Jeff Nelson, quora.com
“There's an opportunity there to address the lone wolf syndrome; particularly in a dev environment, infrastructure-as-code provides a great framework for sharing the load.”— Stuart Ainsworth, devops.stackexchange.com
“Videos start out blurry but then suddenly sharpen up — that is Netflix switching servers till it connects to the one that will give you the highest quality of video.”— Mayukh Nair, medium.com