Remove Blog Remove Engineering Culture Remove Software Review Remove Systems Review
article thumbnail

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

article thumbnail

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. What is a personal retrospective? What went badly?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. Fostering Human Processes.

article thumbnail

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.”

DevOps 145
article thumbnail

How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

But looking at the responsibilities we were taking around vendor negotiations, voluntarily cross-pollinating silos and impacting engineering teams roadmaps in anticipation of scaling needs, we decided to rework that whole category into a broader “system-level” perspective. It therefore feels like a more adequate fit to our function.

article thumbnail

What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? Running untrusted code in-process and ensuring it doesn’t spend too long executing and doesn’t block the whole process.

article thumbnail

On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

But to give credit where it’s due: it’s natural for startup founders to look for ways to get more out of their team, and yet it doesn’t seem to be as natural to recognize successes by granting new titles and roles. A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems.