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PRU Talk Notes

Industry Statistics

Which languages do you think are being used (and want to be used) by professional developers?

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How big are development teams anyway? Any guesses for number of developers at:

  • Microsoft: >100,000
  • Google: ~27,169
  • Netflix: >10,000
  • Facebook: ~32,000
  • Apple: ~16,000
  • Mondago: ~25 :)

No. Developers

These show some rough figures.

How do companies work at this scale?

Version Control Systems

Mention source providers as well

  • Github
  • Bitbucket
  • GitLab

How do version control systems work?

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How to practice using Git?

  • Start using it on your local projects for college
  • Create a project with a text file and mess around with that
  • Contribute to an open source project

An Aside: Contributing to Foam

Lessons learned:

  • Worked with incredibly talented engineers
  • Learned how to properly document issues and features
  • Learned better engineering practices
  • Learned asynchronous working practices