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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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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Observability provides the ability to see inside your complex and distributed systems to know exactly what’s happening in real time. That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. Sociotechnical systems and context awareness. Fostering Human Processes. is pivotal.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

How do you turn complicated, far-flung systems like our widely-distributed system of humans into teams? When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. It’s our career-growth framework for engineers.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. no oversharing or prying). — shelby spees is staying home (@shelbyspees) July 1, 2020.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. no oversharing or prying). — shelby spees is staying home (@shelbyspees) July 1, 2020.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.