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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

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. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. My experience is the opposite.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Test that the capabilities you want to deliver are actually desired by the teams. Build a pl atform b ased on an actual need.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. He shared his experiences from when he led the SRE team at Netflix, and how thats influenced the way he’s helped the Datadog team put process around chaos engineering experiments. Go after the easy wins.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Cross-team interactions felt fraught; focus was constantly shifting; nobody was ever sure what bar we were being measured against.