Engineering Hiring and Developer Tooling Roundup
Scaling a team, or an application, requires the right mix of talent and infrastructure. The following sponsored listings highlight services currently available for engineering leaders and developers looking to optimize their hiring pipelines, cloud security postures, and application architecture.
Hiring Top Engineering Talent
For companies needing to move quickly, Toptal offers access to pre-screened freelance software developers. The service matches developers to project requirements, with the goal of getting a candidate in place in under 48 hours. A no-risk trial is available for those looking to get started immediately.
Engineers actively seeking a new role can look to Triplebyte. Rather than applying to every company individually—an O(n) process—their centralized technical assessment allows engineers to get recommendations that let them skip screening steps at companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart.
For those preparing for interviews, InterviewCamp.io provides hours of system design content and holds live system design discussions weekly. The platform breaks down interview prep into fundamental building blocks.
Security and Infrastructure Tooling
Cloud security is increasingly moving left into the developer workflow. Bridgecrew is a cloud security platform designed for developers, using automation and a security-as-code approach to find, fix, and prevent misconfigurations in both deployed cloud resources and infrastructure-as-code definitions. A free tier is available for those looking to try the service.
A new breed of application security tools is also enabling teams to take the lead on AppSec. Engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to integrate security bug testing directly into their CI pipelines, allowing for more proactive secure development.
Addressing geolocation needs, IP2Location has provided IP geolocation services since 2002. Their database and API detect location, proxy usage, and more than 20 other parameters. The technology is cited in over 700 research papers and trusted by Fortune 500 companies. A similar service, ipdata, provides a reliable IP address geolocation API for identifying approximate location, proxy detection, and company identification, and is trusted by over 10,000 developers.
Scaling Applications and Engineering Skills
For developers building stateful JavaScript applications, FaunaDB aims to make adding state effortless, with a generous free tier available to get started.
For those architecting large-scale systems, Stream provides APIs for building news feeds and activity streams. The service is free up to 3 million feed updates and offers client libraries for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. Stream supports production feed infrastructure for more than 400 companies, including applications with 30 million users. They are currently hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam.
Engineering teams can also sharpen their skills with educational resources. A learning track on Scalability and System Design for Developers from Educative.io focuses on architecture trade-offs and designing enterprise-level software. Additionally, AWS developers can learn the "Good Parts of AWS" from a course created by former senior-level AWS engineers to cut through the hype and focus on essential services.
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