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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

By implementing gamification, managers can extrinsically motivate employees (for example, with point/reward systems) without touching the hard controls within an organization. This blog will explore three ways managers can use gamification to drive organizational change. . Challenging but achievable goals. Progress bars.

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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. What went badly?

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

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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.

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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.” Let’s check it out.

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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? As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone.