Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

Are you starting on your platform engineering journey? 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. Are you looking at how to create a successful platform with lasting value?

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Companies are now looking to grow and more effectively manage DevOps with platform engineering and site reliability engineering roles.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes.

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CloudZero

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As a cloud cost intelligence company, we often like to say “every line of code is a buying decision”. If you’re running on AWS or one of the other big cloud providers, you know that a simple decision about how to architect an application can have a significant impact on your future cost of goods sold (COGS).

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Xebia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Chaos Engineering is perceived as a technical practice. The post Chaos Engineering as management practice appeared first on Xebia Blog. However, it can be leveraged as a management practice to create a safe environment for individuals and teams. It is one of the practices that an organisation can leverage to be anti-fragile.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2022

Engineers are natural readers. 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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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?

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 5, 2023

Of course, it hasn't been easy going for engineering leaders either. That's why Nick, the VP of Engineering and Head of Product at Kyte, sat down with us to discuss how to build an engineering culture with a bias toward action, why he deleted his team's staging environment, and what it takes to outmaneuver his former employer, Uber.

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CircleCI

APRIL 18, 2019

For the last decade, I have worked in male-dominated environments. While during this time I’ve encountered many nitwits and detractors, I’ve also been fortunate to encounter many proponents and advocates. Although no company is perfect, at CircleCI I’ve had opportunities to grow my career in an environment I enjoy.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In less than a year after raising $25 million in Series B funding , technical assessment company CodeSignal announced a $50 million in Series C funding to offer new features for its platform that helps companies make data-driven hiring decisions to find and test engineering talent. This round brings CodeSignal’s total fundraising to $87.5

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Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mark Jensen is Zayo’s senior director of Engineering, Lit Services, responsible for strategic and tactical planning for Zayo’s lit optical networks and solutions. Mark, who graduated as a Petroleum Engineer from Montana Tech, came to Zayo via the 360networks acquisition in 2011. What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo?

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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. Let’s Talk Engineering is always such a pleasure to attend. Thanks Jacque!

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. The culture was also something that piqued my interest.

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Netflix Tech

JULY 15, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s It’s hard to have one piece of practical advice because a team of engineers is a living, breathing entity. Am I a Monster?

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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.” But our interest in the topic is more than a passing trend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. . Codacy’s headcount stands at 100 staffers today.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 Astro support developers through salary and promotion reviews, Samira also noted, assigning engineering mentors who advocate for the progress on developers’ teams. million by 2030. ” Astro plans to use its warchest — $15.9

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company recently hired Varun Singh as chief product technology officer and Sarah Milstein as vice president of engineering. We think we have an unfairly good engineering team from a competitive perspective. Real-time video is a specialized area,” he said.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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? Meet some of our backend engineers… Bryan Mikaelian. There are lots of experienced engineers to learn from. Team: Growth.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. What’s your name, how long have you been here, and what do you do, as an engineer? See our open positions, learn more about our culture, and apply today.

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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. What we have discovered in implementing emerging technology at U.S. Banking on technology and people The largest technology investment for U.S.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Today’s article is about the role of a Principal Engineer as many people still have doubts who is this person and what is his/her responsibilities in a company. Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

DevOps teams work autonomously and embrace a software engineering culture, workflow, and toolset that elevates operational requirements to the same level of importance as architecture, design and development. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

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Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. These are some of the aspects for empowering your IT-crew and creating and truly adopting an engineering culture that will help your company to attract and keep top talent.

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CircleCI

APRIL 13, 2022

We fully embrace blameless engineering culture and the DevOps principle of “you build it, you run it,” but the distributed nature of both our system and our teams has made that connection, communication, and resolution difficult. Over the past 12 months, we’ve nearly doubled our engineering team.

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. This could be a principal engineer or assigned to a group of people, e.g. the product engineering team.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. This could be a principal engineer or assigned to a group of people, e.g. the product engineering team.

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment. Generally, people think it is a good idea to create an environment with high alignment and high autonomy.

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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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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. Engineering teams are recognizing observability as a distinct and emerging practice, and are hungry for a truly differentiated product like Honeycomb.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. Nevertheless, Data Engineers started to suffer from repetitive work, having to wait for the data to be loaded, or for the output to be validated. In many cases, these tasks ended up on the shoulders of the Data Engineers themselves.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 17, 2020

Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

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