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A Sustainable Future: How This Renewable Energy Company Found the Perfect Side-Kick

agora pulse

Yet that’s exactly what Siemens Gamesa , a renewable energy supplier, had to do when the wind power business Siemens merged with the wind energy company Gamesa in 2017. ” Hearing this made our engineers pretty happy! The right tool had to be lean and flexible.

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How We’ve Changed Our Engineering Mindset to Become Builders Again

Buffer Social

I've been working at Buffer since 2014, and even before I joined, I was always impressed by the Buffer team's product and engineering culture: how quick they shipped improvements and how close everyone was to the users (not uncommon to see engineers responding to comments on Twitter!).

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An Honest Look into our Engineering Team Engagement Survey

Buffer Social

It’s been a busy season for our engineering, product, and design teams at Buffer — what we collectively refer to as EPD. A few key takeaways: Engineering teammates have very distinct and differing needs depending on their tenure at Buffer (6+ years, 2-6 years, less than 2 years). That’s a lot of change.

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Department of Energy Expands Online, But…

Ari Herzog

Department of Energy launched Facebook and Twitter pages yesterday, outlined in an introductory blog post as well. Of note from that post: We’re introducing the Energy Blog at a critical moment for the Department. Does that mean I can tweet @Energy and get a personalized reply? Moreover, what’s with accessibility?

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Transformer Security

The Realtime Report

Transformer Security By Liz Cardoza To distribute power across the country, we have used power lines and stations to create an intricate network of energy supplies. High current electricity wastes energy in the form of heat. Works Cited “Addressing Security and Reliability Concerns of Large Power Transformers | Department of Energy.”

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Co-op at Pixlee: My Semester as an Engineering Intern

Pixlee

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Joanna Lou, a software engineering intern who joined Pixlee as a part of Waterloo University’s co-op program. There’s definitely pressure from colleagues to get stuff done, and constant energy of “go, go go” at Pixlee. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.

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Writing tricks for content marketers

Sherrilynne Starkie

Now when it comes to content marketing , writers need to know about search engines and how digital formats are impacting reader habits and preferences. For content marketers the task becomes more complex with the need to attract search engines as well as humans to a story. Good headline writing has long been an art form.

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