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• Best mentoring experience is a two-way street

How to get started with mentoring?

• Talk to others and find out who would be interested in the process
• Is this for engineering, or the whole company
• Start a pilot program
• Ask HR about it

What stops people mentoring?

• Fear of doing it badly

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Why she got involved in onboarding

• Noticed guys get promoted faster
• Without onboarding, women got left behind

Why is onboarding important?

• Spend a lot of money on recruiting, but then throw people in the deep end
• Extremely high ROI

Who should mentor?

• Pretty much everyone should be involved in onboarding

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Moving to Microservices

• Microservices at Netflix: Architecture
• Microservices at Netflix: Process
• Using Services to Break Down Monoliths at Yelp

Microservice Best Practices

• Yelp Service Principles
• Martin Fowler on Microservices

Real Time Processing + Log Architecture

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function start_agent
    echo "Initializing new SSH agent ..."
    ssh-agent -c | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > $SSH_ENV
    echo "succeeded"
    chmod 600 $SSH_ENV
    . $SSH_ENV > /dev/null
    ssh-add
end

function test_identities

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from django.db import models
import markdown


class Blog(models.Model):
    
    content = models.TextField()
    _html = models.TextField()

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):

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from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin

# Tells the admin to discover any 'admin.py' files in your apps. Not necessary in Django 1.7+
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
   url(r'^{}/admin/'.format(settings.ADMIN_URL_PATH), include(admin.site.urls)),
   ...

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import os
...
# Admin URL path for obfuscating the admin interface
ADMIN_URL_PATH = os.environ.get('ADMIN_URL_PATH')

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import uuid
# UUID4 is random!
my_uuid = uuid.uuid4()

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from django import template
import markdown

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def markdownify(text):
    # safe_mode governs how the function handles raw HTML
    return markdown.markdown(text, safe_mode='escape') 

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    # Here we import the 'requests' library. This allows us to visit URLs
    # straight from Python. Note that this must be installed using pip,
    # as described in the previous post
    import requests

    # We define a variable which represents the URL we want to get data from
    api_url = 'http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/company/trackmaven.js'

    # Next we make a dictionary of parameters that are needed to contact the
    # API - in this case, all we need is the key that tells the API we are