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Announcing our acquisition of Code Barrel, makers of Automation for Jira https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/welcome-code-barrel-automation-for-jira Seniority for Software Engineers: a Tech Talk https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/seniority-tech-talk/ Letting Birds scooters fly free https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html Client Consistency at Slack: Beyond Libslack https://slack.engineering/client-consistency-at-slack-beyond-libslack-c9cfbe778fb7 PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/10/18/postgresql-connection-pooling-part-1-pros-cons.html Learnings from the journey to continuous deployment https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/learnings-from-the-journey-to-continuous-deployment Do Software Developers Normally Code on Weekends? Work-life Balance and Overtime in the Tech Industry https://codeahoy.com/2019/10/19/do-software-developers-work-weekends-work-life-tech/ Towards a Culture of Teams https://agileoutloud.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/towards-a-culture-of-teams/ Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them https://m.signalvnoise.com/skip-level-meetings-what-they-are-and-exactly-how-to-run-them/ ...

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