Netflix HR: Freedom & Responsibility

How Netflix Reinvented HR - Harvard Business Review:
Seven Aspects of (Netflix) Culture

• Values are what we Value
• High Performance
• Freedom & Responsibility
• Context, not Control
• Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled
• Pay Top of Market
• Promotions & Development

Culture from Reed Hastings (Netflix co-founder and CEO)

"Industrial firms thrive on reducing variation (manufacturing errors); creative firms thrive on increasing variation (innovation)."

Netflix's 9 favorite values (behaviors and skills):

• Judgement
• Communication
• Impact
• Curiosity
• Innovation
• Courage
• Passion
• Honesty
• Selflessness

Book about Erlang (online free)

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MEAN: Mongo, Express, Angular, Node

Manning: Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node:


Many years after "LAMP", here is a new web-dev-platform acronym...

The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.jsThe MongoDB Blog

MongoDB is recognized for doing good marketing...
But there are some indications that it may not scale as well as some other NoSQL tools:
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