/Internal Tools

The Fastest Way To Build And Self-Host Internal Tools Securely

tl;dr: Budibase saves engineers 100s of hours building internal tools and automating workflows. It's open source, connects to any data source, offers free SSO, and is loved by over 200,000 engineers worldwide. Transform your workflows with Budibase.

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The Fastest Way To Build And Self-Host Internal Tools Securely

tl;dr: Budibase saves engineers 100s of hours building internal tools and automating workflows. It's open source, connects to any data source, offers free SSO, and is loved by over 200,000 engineers worldwide. Transform your workflows with Budibase.

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Scaling Productivity On Microservices At Lyft (Part 2): Optimizing For Fast Local Development

- Scott Wilson tl;dr: "We set out to make a simple and fast inner dev loop. The core shift that needed to be made was from the fully integrated environment of Onebox (many services), toward an isolated environment where only one service and its tests would run. This new isolated environment would be run on developer laptops. Users simply edit code and run tests with no additional steps in between." 

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The Most Used Software Components In The World

- Daniel Stenberg tl;dr: Although impossible to calculate precisely, Daniel believes zlib, sqlite & libcurl are installed in "billions of devices," and the most widely used software in the world.

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State Of Internal Tools 2021

- Kevin Garcia tl;dr: Developers spend ~40% of their time on software to help their business run. We surveyed 650 developers to find out why. Our report covers 1) which companies spend the most time, 2) what developers are building, and 3) how they are measuring success.

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State Of Internal Tools 2021

- Kevin Garcia tl;dr: Developers spend ~40% of their time on software to help their business run. We surveyed 650 developers to find out why. Our report covers 1) which companies spend the most time, 2) what developers are building, and 3) how they are measuring success.

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How IBM Lost The Cloud

- Tom Krazit tl;dr: A picture of a company caught moving in two directions: "a group that correctly understood how the cloud would play an enormous role in enterprise computing, matched up against a sales-driven culture that prioritized the custom needs of its large customers over the work required to catch up with AWS."

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Product For Internal Platforms

- Camille Fournier tl;dr: The role of building products for your own engineering team requires atypical product management. Camille discusses how it's unique, and her approach. 

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