Engineering blogs of top technology companies

We dont have to always learn the hard way. We can learn from others experiences. Here are some links of great engineering blogs from solid technology companies where you get to see how they use technology FOR GOOD. Hope this helps!!

http://engineering.linkedin.com/
http://engineering.twitter.com/
http://engineering.tumblr.com/
http://nerds.airbnb.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Engineering
http://google-engtools.blogspot.in/
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.in/
http://googletesting.blogspot.in/
https://engineering.groupon.com/
http://developer.bazaarvoice.com/blog
http://techblog.netflix.com/
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/
http://codeascraft.etsy.com/
http://engineering.foursquare.com/
http://word.bitly.com/
https://tech.dropbox.com/
http://code.flickr.net/
http://37signals.com/svn/sysadmin
http://devblog.xing.com/
http://www.twilio.com/engineering
http://blog.socialcast.com/engineering/
http://corp.klout.com/blog/category/engineering/
http://eng.yammer.com/blog/
http://engineering.slideshare.net/

Please feel free to add, if you find something great missing here.

Agile - for Indian teams

Agile - Scrum, have been the buzz words among software teams for a while now. While I love keeping things really Agile, the bigger question has been, at least for me, how far does this fit into Indian teams and especially with - Pyramid Structure - which has been a very successful formula for Indian majors, at least in terms of their financial results, or probably the only place of success !!

I have been a part of many discussion, with friends or friends or sometimes even in interviews on what I think of Agile and my answer has always been - NOT A RIGHT FIT* - * conditions apply !!!

What Agile wants (my views):

• Independent contributors
• Everyone is equally talented
• Everyone does everything (Analyze, Design, code, Test... everything)
• ego less (not less ego :-) )
• Broad Thinkers (think beyond the given task)
• Helping others 
• Dare to take risks
• Disciplined/Punctual
• Passion
• Love what one does
• Forget QA (QA should just ensure product is without bugs, not work to only find bugs)

I hardly see someone with about tenets, instead, something like below is more prevalent:

• Indians do not have a habit of being on time - we are never late, we are on Indian timings
• Most love what they GET for what they do rather than what they DO - confused?? think deep !!!
• Attitude of treating a technology cheap, without knowing the true value - best example HTML/CSS/JS
• Ego or selfishness in part of the paracel, taking them away is close to impossible
• Writing unit test cases is a crime, not a job of a programmer attitude
• Always see QA as gateway to find bugs - think as if, that is what they paid for....
• Risking something is hardly seen, let us play safe all the time, WHY ME attitude !!!!
• Biggest of all, lack of passion, for most, a job is a purpose met

I have lot to speak on these grounds but do not have much time to write. 

I dont deny that we have stronger Agile teams in most of the companies around, that is what I meant by *conditions apply