backend
Alerting on SLOs like Pros
If there is anything like a silver bullet for creating meaningful and actionable alerts with a high signal-to-noise ratio, it is alerting based on service-level…
Technical Interview Reform, Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge
Most SoundCloud backend engineers have good feelings about the old backend engineering take-home challenge. It’s commonly been characterized…
Technical Interview Reform, Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results
Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge Among the engineering groups at SoundCloud, backend…






