Erika Hokanson

Erika Hokanson

My passion is scaling creative solutions to help people through technology. I am currently the Director of Operations and Sales at Software Engineering Daily.

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re:Invent in Review: Adrian Cockcroft, Abby Fuller, and Deepak Singh Discuss AWS

At AWS re:Invent, the Software Engineering Daily team spoke with AWS technologists: Adrian Cockcroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy Deepak Singh, Director of Compute Services Abby

Build Satellite Applications with AWS Ground Station

At AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced AWS Ground Station service. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed network of 12 ground station antennas located around the

Strategies for Interviewing and Hiring: Part 2 of 2

CULTURE FIT, OR: TECHNICAL SKILLS MATTER, SOFT SKILLS ALSO MATTER “Culture fit” is a term that is used to describe engineers that have the right personality for a given company. In

Strategies for Interviewing and Hiring: Part 1 of 2

“Humans are the most complicated thing out there – judging human skill is extremely hard, there’s all kinds of ways that people can be good.” There are some big unanswered

Meet Apache Kafka

Kafka has become a central tool for data at many large organizations. At data-intensive companies like Fiverr and Netflix, Kafka is used simultaneously as: a database a queue for ordered