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Database technologies change, and so do the ways developers and architects like to learn about and work with them. We’re tracking that in our State of the Developer survey. It’s open and we’d like you to take a few minutes to complete it.
Here’s some of the interesting things we learned from our survey of more than 800 developers last year about they believe hinders productivity:
DevOps is at the core of making development more efficient and effective. With that in mind, we’d like to pick your brains for a few minutes.
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NativeScript 6.0 is now available. The open-source framework for building cross-platform native Web and mobile applications specifically focused on developer productivity with the 6.0 release. Examples of increased developer productivity include faster patch delivery, additional out of the box functionality, additional pre-built scenarios that avoid custom development, and specific tools driving the development experience.
"In Engineering, we tend to hold this idea that these people systems —career ladders, performance reviews, calibration — are these evil things that aren't very valuable. They're thought of as bureaucracy. But it's a shame. These are really powerful systems, and I'm actually excited to personally spend a lot of time with them."
Will Larson, who was previously an engineering leader at Digg and then Uber, now leads Foundation Engineering at Stripe. His organization partners with Infrastructure, Data, and Developer Productivity teams to build the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant.
You can go about building a performance management system in uncountable ways, but Larson points out that most of them are comprised of three core elements: career ladders, performance designations, and performance cycles. These combined systems focus your team's efforts on the activities and metrics that ultimately help the organization succeed, by providing direct feedback to engineers on how valuable their work is (and by measuring it against expectations).