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How ChatGPT Will Restructure Engineering Teams & Create Opportunity for Startups

Tom Tunguz

As machine learning becomes core to every product, engineering teams will restructure. In the past, the core engineering team & the data science/machine learning teams worked separately. The core engineering team ships the product & focuses on reliability.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. She creates front-end libraries, a role that perfectly suits her given her life-long passion for user experience, design, and building things. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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UX vs CX (User Experience vs Customer Experience): Explaining 4 Key Differences

User Pilot

UX deals with a user's interactions with specific aspects of your product, while CX is broader and covers all customer engagements with your brand. TL;DR The user experience (UX) is the sum of a user's thoughts, impressions, and feelings as they interact with specific aspects of your product.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower SaaS

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Prioritize engineering work by putting it in the context of end user experience. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams.

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How We Connect Our Engineers Directly To Buffer Customers with Customer Engineering Days

Buffer Resources

It was an awesome bonding experience and a great way to bring everyone across the company–from the People Team, to Engineers, Designers, and Finance–closer to customers. Iteration #3: Pairing Engineers with our customers In 2022, we introduced Customer Engineering Days.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.