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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

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.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

While my engineering experience is deepest in frontend technologies, I am very grateful to have built early experience in a number of shops that did pair programming and brought a DevOps mindset to their work. Working across the stack.

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Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Honeycomb

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

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. There’s also a mentoring and coaching program in place.

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

Honeycomb

E : Programming in an overly-defensive manner is probably the big one! doesn’t turn any heads; everyone I’ve talked to has experience with what it takes to build a great organization (and product), from all different perspectives of the industry. Q: What are some bad habits you had to unlearn from other companies?

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness. Diversity Theatre.