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Uber’s engineering level changes

The Pragmatic Engineer

Until early 2022, the software engineering levels at Uber were: Engineering levels at Uber, 2014-2022 Back when I was at Uber in around 2020, I saw statistics about the spread of these levels. This level was created back around 2014, before which Uber had L3, L4, L5, L6 and L7 levels. Better late than never!

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How Data Engineering Evolved since 2014

Towards Data Science

Top trends to help your data pipelines scale with ease Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend

The Pragmatic Engineer

On this, Dane said: “We took a similar approach with Registrar as we did with SSL back in 2014 — we decided it was crazy that people should have to pay to be encrypted online. In 2014, we became one of the first services to say that you should get encryption at no extra cost, even on our free plan.

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Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform

Uber Engineering

In October 2014, Uber had started its journey of scale in what … The post Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. The making of Edge Gateway, the highly-available and scalable self-serve gateway to configure, manage, and monitor APIs of every business domain at Uber.

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Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally?

The Pragmatic Engineer

I collected historical data on the number of companies posting positions per month, from 2014. ” forum, where Hacker News readers from hiring companies can post jobs, with one post per company. The vast majority of posts are related to software engineering.

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Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond

The Pragmatic Engineer

” I spent a few days collecting and crunching Trustwave’s Glassdoor reviews, and can now map out how reviews have changed: The change in ratings for Trustwave, 2014-2023.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

And this was proved true not long after I returned to Amazon in 2014, when a very large AWS service outage was caused by… you guessed it; the absence of bounds checking and parallelized execution. The AWS re:invent conference in 2022 hosted a good in-depth overview of Amazon’s COE process.