Twitter launches Twitter University for engineers
Twitter has launched a ‘university’ programme to help develop the skills of engineers working with the company.
The social media giant hopes it will be able to build on several existing efforts to support technical training.
“We currently offer employees a whole swath of technical trainings, from orientation classes for new engineers to iOS Bootcamp, JVM Fundamentals, Distributed Systems, Scala School, and more for those who want to develop new skills. Most of these classes are taught by our own team members, and many of them have been organized during our quarterly Hack Weeks - a testament to our engineers’ passion for learning and education,” said Chris Fry, senior vice president, Engineering, in the announcement.
“Twitter University will be a vital foundation for our engineering organisation.”
To lead the program, Twitter acquired Marakana, a company dedicated to open source training.
While the programme is aimed at its own staff, Twitter states it will release some of the Twitter University content online via the @TwU account to anyone who’d like to learn.