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Atlassian has hired 1,200 workers remotely since the beginning of the pandemic. It plans to hire 1,000 workers in its next fiscal year and will keep remote work as an option. An engineering exec told Insider how the firm evaluated candidates and what it was looking for. The $55 billion Australian software giant Atlassian has hired 1,200 workers remotely since the beginning of the pandemic and plans to hire at least 1,000 workers in its next fiscal year. Its rash of new hires amounts to about 25% of its total workforce, Atlassian s head of cloud engineering, Stephen Deasy, told Insider. The bulk of its new hiring has focused on research and development including roles in engineering, designing, and managing as the company plans a slate of new releases in the coming months. For example, it has announced upcoming versions of its popular Jira and Confluence products, which help with project tracking and team collaboration. ....
GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. A software issue caused Arizona prison inmates to be stuck behind bars longer than legally allowed. A separate software issue resulted in potentially thousands of inmates wrongly held in max custody. Other software issues have led to fatal outcomes, leading experts to call for increased oversight. It s easy to forget just how much of the modern world is powered by software, from trains and planes to emails and file transfers. Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) s National Prison Project, says that when software is working behind the scenes, that kind of business operations stuff, you just assume normally it s doing its job. ....
Amid all of this, developers are taking a side: An open letter calling for his removal from all leadership positions has racked up signatures from almost 3,000 individuals and nearly 60 organizations at the time of publication, while an opposing letter in support of Stallman has racked up over 5,000 individual signatures (no organizations have signed). The response to the return of Stallman both the fierce backlash and the show of support highlights how open source software is grappling with issues of accountability and power dynamics. On one side are those who say his behaviours shouldn t supersede his contributions to the industry, while the other believes that allowing him in leadership implicitly condones his behavior, harms the community, and drives out talent. ....
Architecture decision records (ADRs) help keep track of decisions about tech tools and projects. GitHub, ThoughtWorks, and eBay use ADRs to provide a detailed, clear history and guide the future. Losing the context on a decision can make it a silent, lurking liability and ADRs avoid that. When developers at fintech startup Nubank needed to choose which database they d use for its customer interaction system, they didn t rush into the decision. They carefully listed all of the attributes they wanted the database to have like flexibility and compatibility with existing tools as well as all the different options, like Amazon DynamoDB and Datomic. For each option, they then listed the pros and cons of each tool. ....
Flatfile Flatfile announced Wednesday that it raised $35 million in funding led by Scale Venture Partners. Flatfile s founders worked together at Envoy and started the software as a side project. Flatfile helps customers with onboarding customer data, and it has customers like Toast and HubSpot. While David Boskovic and Eric Crane were working at office software startup Envoy in 2017, they couldn t believe how hard it was to handle and clean up the firm s data. So, out of that personal frustration they rage designed a side project, which they called Flatfile, that could automatically organize and format data. Boskovic quit Envoy to focus on the project full-time in December 2018 and the firm just announced a $35 million Series A round on Wednesday led by Scale Venture Partners. The firm s total funding is $42.6 million; it now has a valuation of $185 million. After launching in June, Flatfile has already raked in 300 cu ....