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Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

Apr 13

A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should…

Sep 21, 2021

Analysis of The State of Frontend survey with 3,700 respondents. What engineering practices and technologies are gaining momentum in the field?

Nov 8

What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details.

Apr 7

Approaches for shipping code to production reliably, every time.

May 24

Choosing frameworks, languages and architecture approaches at Trello, Birdie, MetalBear and Motive.

Nov 29

All of the newsletter articles published in the first year of the publication, grouped by topic.

Aug 22

essons on migration projects from Box, Stripe, Pinterest, Doordash, LinkedIn and others.

Oct 11

Resilient payments systems, large-scale data storage with OLTP and OLAP systems, platform team challenges, and more.

Aug 30

What I’ve learned about the newsletter business, plans for the coming year, and some numbers.

Sep 7

Layoffs, rescinded offers, hiring freezes, hiring slowdowns and a realistic look at the market.

May 19

Klarna’s historic down-round, Peloton’s historic repricing of options, and engineers looking for a protective shelter from the coming rough times on the…

Jul 7

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