A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity
DevOps.com
MAY 8, 2023
Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.
Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture
Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
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. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. So we need to make it part of everything we do.
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I’m thinking about developer productivity.
Xebia
MARCH 21, 2024
Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?
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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies. based tech companies.
Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code.
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Using team sentiment and process health metrics to identify developer burnout
Allstacks
JANUARY 20, 2022
In the summer of 2021, we published an article on preventing developer burnout and tech culture’s historical tendency to glamorize being “so busy.” Read more about the impact of Covid-19 on software development. Mental health is at the forefront of everyone’s radar, and Allstack is here for it.
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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations
Xebia
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It provides a platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the development of valuable resources for the InnerSource community. What is InnerSource?
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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture
CIO
AUGUST 31, 2023
Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?
Continuous learning gives U.S. Bank a technology talent edge
CIO
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. Plan: Growing skillsets and knowledge Just investing the time doesn’t necessarily mean our teams will develop the right skills.
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Article: Scaling and Growing Developer Experience at Netflix
InfoQ Culture Methods
JULY 21, 2022
An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary.
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Article: The Top Three Priorities for Engineering Leaders in 2022 and Beyond
InfoQ Culture Methods
APRIL 14, 2022
For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. By Lilac Mohr.
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Article: Agile Development Applied to Machine Learning Projects
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.
CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Like people needing to take a driver’s test in order to get a license, Sloyan calls the company’s technical assessment technology a “flight simulator for developers,” that gives candidates a simulated evaluation of their skills and comes back with a score and highlighted strengths.
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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development
Apiumhub
MARCH 3, 2022
Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).
Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Code review is a key step during the software development process — it’s when people check a program by viewing and reading parts of the source code. But despite its importance, not all developers are pleased with the way traditional code reviews work. Pulse aims to help in this process.”
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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation
CIO
MARCH 22, 2023
So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.
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What Is DevOps Culture?
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
At its essence, a DevOps culture involves closer collaboration and a shared responsibility between development and operations for the products they create and maintain. The understanding that developers who build it, also run it, brings developers closer to the user, with a greater understanding of user requirements and needs.
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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments
Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2024
Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. People centered culture People culture ‹-› Performance culture 4. Purpose driven Organizational development ‹-› Value creation Table 1. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.
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A Software Engineering Career Ladder
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.
Article: Using Machine Learning for Fast Test Feedback to Developers and Test Suite Optimization
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The article explores optimizing test execution, saving machine resources, and reducing feedback time to developers. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available. By Gregor Endler, Marco Achtziger.
10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 12, 2022
I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.
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How do you know DevOps is working?
CloudGeometry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. That’s a mistake.
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You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence
CircleCI
MAY 26, 2020
At CircleCI, my team uses a short-lived branching model for software development. While this strategy goes against everything I once thought was the ‘right’ way to develop software, in this post, I’ll describe how seeing it in practice has taught me to embrace it. Any developer can deploy partially using canaries.
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Article: Getting Rid of Wastes and Impediments in Software Development Using Data Science
InfoQ Culture Methods
JANUARY 7, 2022
This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of.
5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability
Honeycomb
MAY 24, 2023
The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? Think of observability as the best gift organizations can give to developers (and, ultimately, to their bottom lines).
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The Programmer's Paradox
APRIL 13, 2023
I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. That separation between development and operations was really, really great. We were able to focus on the engineering, while they took care of the operational issues. Developers should develop and operations should operate.
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Thoughts on organizing architecture
Xebia
AUGUST 3, 2021
Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gregor Hohpe describes this as riding the elevator.
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Functional vs non-functional software testing
CircleCI
APRIL 20, 2022
For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. When developers write code as loosely-coupled modules — as it usually should be — the components rely on explicit contracts for how they interact. It is worth spending some time incorporating this type of testing into your software development process.
Thoughts on organizing architecture
Xebia
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gregor Hohpe describes this as riding the elevator.
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Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos
Confluent
MAY 23, 2019
Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.
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3 Ways Cluster Sprawl Creates Significant Waste and Risk For Your Organization
d2iq
AUGUST 17, 2020
All of these issues will eventually lead to inconsistent performance and reliability issues and an increase in security risks and development and maintenance costs. Empowering Both Developers and Operators When adopting Kubernetes and other cloud native services, it’s important to think about how they’ll impact the engineering culture.
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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?
OverOps
JULY 11, 2018
Both titles aim to bridge the gap between development and operation teams, with a unified goal of enhancing the release cycle without any compromises. Both titles co-exist in the same space, and both are an essential part of the development team; so how are they different, and what does each one mean? Let’s check it out.
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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2022
Test automation is one of the practices that helps teams gain confidence earlier in the development process. It reduces the cost of testing and supports keeping long-term, high-development velocities. This results in a steadily-growing set of tests becoming part of the development cycle. Execute Tests Earlier. Conclusion.
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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization
Datavail
APRIL 6, 2022
In addition to modernizing your.NET applications and development methodologies, you might also take this chance to renovate the underlying database, or fix chronic pain points such as data quality issues. Establishing an IT culture. Consider establishing internal coding standards that will make testing and long-term maintenance easier.
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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices
Honeycomb
APRIL 29, 2024
In the context of software development, particularly with observability 1.0’s s favorite three buzzwords (logs, metrics, and traces), we can draw several analogies to understand software development and debugging. This concept parallels the unnoticed or ignored bugs and system flaws in software development.
Learn how to build a resilient software team
CircleCI
JANUARY 22, 2021
I have the good fortune of not only leading a developer-first company focused on delivering value to engineers, but also seeing how thousands of the world’s best teams move their code from idea to delivery. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.
Article: How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers itself. Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make.
Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020
Github
MARCH 11, 2020
Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Developers can make suggestions and adopt a style of working that’s more open and fits their needs,” he says. “If
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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
During the development of Operational Database and Replication Manager, I kept telling folks across the team it has to be “so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”. As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity.
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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck
Capgemini
AUGUST 27, 2020
DevOps represents a change in IT culture. It is a mindset shift that seeks to break down preexisting siloes between development, quality, security, and operations teams. While the developers were pushing new functionalities into production, operations had to smooth away the difficulties. The case for DevOps leadership.
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Forbes names CircleCI to America's Best Startup Employers list
CircleCI
MARCH 11, 2021
From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs , along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to.
How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix
Netflix Tech
MARCH 5, 2019
Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. Can we develop learning models to enrich metadata with application vulnerabilities and risk scores?
Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?
CIO
APRIL 10, 2024
Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.
Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi
CircleCI
APRIL 12, 2022
Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.
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