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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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any real-world engineering project ;-). We eventually ended up converting everything to SQLAlchemy’s lowest-level language for constructing SQL (one step away from raw SQL). Unlike product, which is harder to reason about, backend engineering is fairly objective (optimize page load time, uptime, etc.) URL: [link].

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity. Amazing list.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

All standard reports are simply the vendor engineer's attempt to showcase the data in the tool. While these metrics sound good, and yes they do get a bunch of press coverage (they have good PR Agents), they are rarely deeply relevant and even more rarely yield valuable insights into business performance. Time on Site!

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