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Measuring Developers Isn’t Tyranny

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Informing someone that you want to “measure” them is not a great way to start a conversation. Software developers, like all people, tend to look unfavorably upon having their performance closely measured. But measuring developers is one of the hottest trends for companies around the globe. So is it tyranny to measure people?

People are quick to note that numbers don’t tell the whole story and can become defensive at the notion their productivity should be quantified somehow. This resistance can become even more entrenched when teams become stacked against each other. 

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How to Game Dev Metrics

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What leads teams to game metrics within their organization?

On a recent episode of Dev Interrupted, I talked with agile expert Ray Elenteny, Principal Owner at Solutech Consulting, about how people game dev metrics and the underlying issues in culture & leadership that lead to it.

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Engineering Productivity and Culture at Netflix

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What is it like to work at Netflix as a developer? How do they think about culture, customers and engineering productivity?

In this incredible episode of Dev Interrupted, I bring in Kathryn Koehler, the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix, to chat about what makes Netflix so unique and why they are standardizing data-driven engineering today.

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Sending InfluxDB Line Protocol to QuestDB

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At QuestDB we’ve had a UDP version of the InfluxDB Line Protocol (ILP) reader in QuestDB for quite some time, but we’ve had customers ask for a TCP version of it, so we delivered!

Using it, and configuring it, are relatively simple so don’t expect this to be a long post but I’ll walk you through the basics of how to set it up and use it.

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