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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution

Honeycomb

While helpful in pinpointing known-unknowns, it impeded the team’s ability to explore the workings of the software, particularly in uncovering unknown-unknowns. It also fell short in supporting an engineering culture of ownership and curiosity within the organization, exacerbated by the pricing model.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Expensify is an SF-founded (now Portland-based), decentralized startup focused on building expense reporting and analytics software for companies and CFOs. New York-based NS1 designs highly redundant DNS and internet traffic performance tools for web applications. Yet, take a look at how the two companies were founded.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% of requests to our application should be handled within one second and without errors. Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It’s been widely reported that many—perhaps most—cloud vulnerabilities stem from misconfigured identity and access management ; we’d bet that the same applies to applications that run on-premises. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” According to Treynor, SRE is “what happens when a software engineer is tasked with what used to be called operations.”

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? Rolling out proposal application for these talks helps one being prepared in terms of the content of the speech and making sure this content aligns with the agenda of the hackathon. a token of respect, a small payback.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.