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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence

CircleCI

The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. Author: Vincent Driessen Original blog post.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. Moved the needle on the blog post. This feels good!

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You? The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.”

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

This is my first week here as the first dedicated SRE for Honeycomb, and in a welcoming gesture, I was asked if I wanted to write a blog post about my first impressions and what made me decide to join the team. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. Someone able to find balance in all things.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.