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Laurel Ruma

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Cambridge
As seen in: MIT Technology Review, Business Lab (Podcast), O'Reilly Media
Editorial Director, US Insights at MIT Technology Review. Former O'Reilly Media. Photographer, @shegeeksout, MBTA GLX citizen rep, Boston Area Beer Enthusiast.
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From chaos engineering to bug bounties-why companies need to experiment with new technology

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By Laurel Ruma Verified, Lorna Jane Mitchell, Simon St. Laurent, Jason Krol
| O'Reilly Media
In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I talk with Tammy Butow, a site reliability engineer at Gremlin, and Annie Lau, a software engineering manager at Trulia, about creating a culture of learning, how experimentation is important to business, and their careers in tech. Why chaos engineering is important: Butow explains, "If you don't do chaos engineering, you're just going with your gut, really, and just waiting for the bad things to happen.
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Cory Doctorow on the fight for a configurable and free internet

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By Laurel Ruma Verified
| O'Reilly Media
Check out Cory Doctorow's keynote address “The Freedom to Configure is the Freedom to Make a Better World” at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, June 11-14, 2018. In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I talk with Cory Doctorow, who is a science fiction author, editor of Boing Boing, the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and currently a special advisor for the EFF.
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Cory Doctorow on the fight for a configurable and free internet

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By Laurel Ruma Verified, Lorna Jane Mitchell, Simon St. Laurent, Jason Krol
| O'Reilly Media
In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I talk with Cory Doctorow, who is a science fiction author, editor of Boing Boing, the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and currently a special advisor for the EFF. Doctorow will be a keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, July 11-14, 2018, in San Jose.
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Being a great front-end developer means being fluent in tools, accessibility, and teamwork

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By Laurel Ruma Verified, Lorna Jane Mitchell, Simon St. Laurent, Jason Krol
| O'Reilly Media
To become more fluent in the language of the global, expanding, maturing web, you’ll want to attend Fluent in San Jose this year. If you're working on the modern web—whether you're independent or part of a large team—and you want to experience hands-on learning, make meaningful connections, and share ideas across communities, then Fluent offers a number of ways to learn the tools, techniques, and tech you’ll need.
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The web is broken; let’s fix it

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By Laurel Ruma Verified, Lorna Jane Mitchell, Simon St. Laurent, Jason Krol
| O'Reilly Media
Check out Brendan Eich's keynote address “The Coming Era of Privacy by Default: Brave and the Basic Attention Token” at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference, June 11-14, 2018. In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I talk with Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, co-founder of the Mozilla Project and Foundation, and CEO and founder of Brave Software. Eich will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming O’Reilly Fluent Conference, July 11-14, 2018, in San Jose.
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Lead with merit and be rewarded with success

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By Laurel Ruma Verified
| radar.oreilly.com
Attend Cultivate, September 28 to 29 in New York, NY. Cultivate is our conference looking at the challenges facing modern management and aiming to train a new generation of business leaders who understand the relationship between corporate culture and corporate prosperity. At our Cultivate conference in July, Michael Lopp had a fantastic session on “Leadership: By the Numbers,” which was a bit like leadership fundamentals that you may have forgotten or never knew.
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