Friday, December 27, 2013

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)

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!:
Learn You Some Erlang book coming out of space with a red panda saying hello

link from:
Herding Code 181: CouchDb, Cloudant, MyCouch and SisoDb with Max Thayer and Daniel Wertheim

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:
Herding Code 181: CouchDb, Cloudant, MyCouch and SisoDb with Max Thayer and Daniel Wertheim