Christina Cece

I've long struggled with calling saying something has "Good" or "Bad" Developer Experience (DX) because it's extremely binary and doesn't really help product teams improve their DX. For that reason when I started the Developer Advocacy program at Twilio and began to work with product teams on improving their DX we ended up creating the "DX Spectrum" framework that is helping product teams evaluate their DX better and helps to answer the question "How do we create a magical developer experience?" https://lnkd.in/ggMmCx_e

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Our partnership with Brex now gives us unparalleled insight and breadth in SaaS purchasing reports

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🚀 New Drop: "Spotlight"! Coming to you on July 15th! 🌟 What if your marketing data could automatically help refine your audience targeting? That’s "Spotlight" for you—launching July 15th. It takes your first-party data, like website interactions and campaign metrics, and turns them into a powerhouse for re-targeting. 🎯 📹 Dive into our video to discover how "Spotlight" can enhance your ad game. Time to turn up your marketing vibe! Link to schedule a demo is in the comment  #Metadata-Spotlight #AdMagic #MakeItCount

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We're looking for a senior-staff PM now at Honeycomb, who will drive and own a multi-year vision for a net-new, permanent and significant expansion of Honeycomb's product surface area: https://lnkd.in/g2sM_TfC I’ve sat in this role for 3.5 years now, on and off, so you’ll be inheriting a lot of my regretful decisions. But I’m here to help you navigate that! It involves big data (for real), deep OSS involvement, lots of customers who love the product, and a great team to boot. If you like the idea of thinking through how you’ll turn 10M events per second into 100k, without breaking the bank, and making it as semi-automatic as possible, without losing signal on that data, and building a compelling UI that lets people build and monitor this stuff, this might be up your alley! Wanna talk with tons of customers and spicy sales engineers who have to sometimes commit code crimes to make stuff work, and then tell you about it? Wanna make painful prioritization decisions? Wanna find a way to execute on a multi-year vision and not get lost along the way? Click the link above. Wanna eat shit in front of a customer whose exact set of constraints violates every tradeoff decision you made? And then go back to them 4 months later with the good news that you’ve fixed it all? Come say hi! Wanna try to wrap your head around someone's perceived notions of how observability works, and find creative ways to reorient their worldview? Hi hello please apply. Wanna get deeply involved in the #opentelemetry community, become a core contributor, attend lots of community events, and be continuously infused with customer problems and feedback and also overall industry directions? You know what to do. Wanna work with a very product-minded engineering team who will push you to get stuff done? Wanna be a part of a group that is usually fast, usually right on the first go of things, and isn't afraid to try things and maybe pull them back if they're not working? Wanna have fun too? Clicky clicky.

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Sup fam!! Relationships are everything!! They're the core of your engineering platform. Your team's design docs, software patterns, pull requests, and GitOps workflows all need to pass through a complex network of relationships before becoming meaningful to stakeholders. Before that, they're just bytes sitting on Jeff Bezos' disks. How are your relationships doing? Which relationships need some light touching up? Which ones need some serious investment? How about that one person on that one team? How about on _your_ team? Are you tracking these gaps with the same effectiveness you're tracking tech debt? It takes an intentional effort to build meaningful connections and to show peers you're a stakeholder in _their_ success. It's worth your time -- not to mention you'll feel great!! Want to optimize your engineering platform? Start by investing in your relationships!

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I know I'm a bit biased, but I think Ionic provides some incredibly useful tools that help mobile app developers build and launch apps faster. If you're interested in learning more about Ionic, check out this walkthrough by Logan Brade. https://lnkd.in/gNVQc9SU

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I had a great time at Front's Frontlines event with Kenji Hayward and Stacy Justino discussing how we can all raise the bar for customer expectations. If you want some practical takeaways on how to meet increasingly high customer expectations; practical uses for AI to help your agents; and effective cross-functional collaboration across your business, you can read the recap here: https://lnkd.in/guPAcUec

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At InVision, we worked with some amazing software vendors. I know I've talked about most of these in the past; but, I just want to give a final shout-out to some of my favorites: * LaunchDarkly - feature flags completely changed the way we approached product development. And, allowed us to all but eliminate our incidents and outages (shameless plug for my own book: https://lnkd.in/ehxiy6bY). * Postmark - delivered all of our outbound emails and powered our inbound reply-by-email workflows with flawless uptime and befuddling performance. * Pusher - powered our real-time collaboration via WebSockets, bringing our UIs to life and keeping browsers synchronized. * Intergral | FusionReactor APM - gave us deep insights into our JVM performance, allowing us to track down SQL, API, and processing bottlenecks. * Datadog - truly world-class metrics, alerting, and monitoring. * Adobe ColdFusion / Lucee CFML - the programming language and application server that allowed us to move fast, keep things simple, respond to users, and build wonderful things. * Cloudflare - your CDN, WAF, and web workers took a beating so that our origin servers could stay online. * Amplitude - connected me to the users by giving us insight into what our users were actually doing (or not doing). At one point, I think we had over 300 different SaaS subscriptions; so this list is faaaaar from exhaustive. And, I'm sure I'm forgetting other beloved services. And, many of our teams worked with entirely different technologies. This is just my little corner of the organization. And, I couldn't have done it without them. Thank you so much! ❤️

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How do you tackle technical debt? Every software company has technical debt, and the majority struggle to pay it back. After reading Shape Up, we've been trialing 8-week cycles of a 6-week build phase followed by a 2-week cool down. The cool down phase allows us to catch our breath and prepare for the next cycle. More importantly, it also allows us to focus on technical debt. The 2-week window gives us plenty of dedicated time to focus on large issues that will have significant benefits for future cycles.

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When Klaviyo recruited me three years ago to help architect a system that would deliver hundreds of millions of email messages per hour on behalf of their customers, I thought, "Wow. That's a lot of mail. How could I *not* build that?" Now that we're doing it for real, I still think, "Wow. That's a lot of mail. We *built* that." $3 billion+ in Klaviyo-attributed value. 420 million messages sent in a single hour on #BlackFriday. And over 15,000 customers having their best day ever (🙌) on Klaviyo.  Read our full BFCM By The Numbers report to learn how Klaviyo customers achieved recording-breaking results this #BFCM.

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I've been interviewing a lot of people, so I get some variant of this question a lot. What does Remi actually do? I explain our unique business model & opportunity in my latest post. https://lnkd.in/gswR5anB

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If you're investing in building the expertise of your employees, it'll enable you to run a leaner, and more collaborative organization. A great way to invest in building expertise is through the lens of retrospecting past "uh-ohs", incidents, or unexpected situations. However, in order to do this, it's important that there aren't just engineers in the room of a post-incident review. You'll need have representatives from various teams related to a contributing factor of the incident both involved AND talking in the incident review. Invest in facilitation of this, keep this as a habit, and over time you'll notice your culture shifts: from various departments operating on their own agendas ➡️to one organization: understanding each others' worlds a little more deeply, marching in lockstep, and less reliance on individual expertise.

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July has been an awesome month for our BigQuery team. We have a couple of things cooking in the kitchen that I was itching to write about independently. They just happened to somehow land very close together in the last half of the month. I'll do a post on each inshallah. Four in total, so follow along 😊. #First, from the July 22nd #BigQuery release notes: Continuous Queries are now in preview! 🎉🎉🎉 This is one of the coolest capabilities we are working on. It builds upon the best natively managed streaming engine in the world (BigQuery) to provide near real time insights for a number of critical use cases. It seamlessly integrates different sources and destinations of your enterprise application data with the DW warehouse of record. And, more importantly, it democratizes the creation of these applications by extending them to the wider base of SQL users. We had a sneak peak about this in NEXT`24 with great enthusiasm (reference to the post in the first comment). We are very happy and excited to have it now open to our wider user base. This is just the start of a very long journey. Things will only get easier, better, and faster from here 😊. Start here: https://lnkd.in/gbQwSj6Z Shout out to our awesome team: Luis Alonso, Haochuan Fan, Alexander Balikov, Nick Orlove cc: Pavan Edara, Tomas Talius

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It's probably no surprise to anyone that knows me well, that I love self-development podcasts. One of my favorite is Ramit Sethi's I will teach you to be rich (aka Money for Couples). I recently got this email newsletter When I ask people what their Rich Life looks like, most people say something like: "I want to do what I want, when I want."   Success is rarely a dollar amount. Most people want a lifestyle. In the workplace, this means having a flexible job.    Which might look like: -Never having to do the daily commute to the office -Having a schedule that lines up with when you’re most productive -Taking a spin class in the middle of the day -Picking up your kids from school every afternoon -Living in different countries for several months at a time If this describes your idea of a great job, Pinterest is for you. Check out the 75 open roles in engineering: https://lnkd.in/gapDB_u3 At Pinterest, we hire smart people and trust them to do a good job. We don't track how often you badge into a building or how many days you show up in the office. We care about the business impact your code generates. We know that in person collaboration is useful, and we come in the office about 1/week. This isn't an unbreakable rule that you will get punished for violating. We want you to be your best you and to do your best work. We believe that flexibility enhances creativity and productivity. If you see something that calls to you, reach out and I am happy to answer questions.

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Missed deadlines is a really common problem that development teams face. Dave Todaro shares some really helpful nuggets in this episode!

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I keep reading this every couple days and falling in love with it more. We keep having more and more systems because people need to write articles and books. And, of course, you have to have your own acronym. But when we step back and look at the core of things, most of it boils down to: 1. Go to therapy and deal with your own shit 2. Talk to other people. Be humble. 3. Actively listen to them and think deeply about what you heard from them 4. Don't be a dick. Have empathy. 5. Try to figure out situations where everyone wins That's it.

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Was playing around with v0.dev before last weeks Next.js conf, wanted to stress test how much it could help someone build a complex feature in Catalyst. One of our merchants was looking to add a Gift Certificates section like Stencil has and we just haven't got to it yet within the out-of-the-box version. Was a perfect scenario! High level take? If you are building in Next.js you should 100% add v0 to your toolbox. It'll help you slice away at features much faster than any other AI solution in market. I include more notes in the PR along with a demo of what was built on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eBm6wVdP

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🔧 Attention Developers! Sing-up for the Composable.com Masterclass, led by Orium experts David Azoulay and Danny Lake, for a deep dive into building headless commerce storefronts using Composable UI. This session will focus on practical implementation using Next.js and React, demonstrating how to efficiently architect and design dynamic, scalable commerce platforms. Perfect for developers, architects, and designers eager to enhance their skills with real-world applications. 🗓️ Register today and level up your ecommerce solutions. #DeveloperTraining #TechSkills #NextJS #ReactDevelopment

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