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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Looking at the current technological and organizational paradigm, we can only recognize the world is massively different from 10 or 20 years ago. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. Do we need architects anyway?

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Looking at the current technological and organizational paradigm, we can only recognize the world is massively different from 10 or 20 years ago. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. Do we need architects anyway?

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

Honeycomb

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. A genuine joy in seeing teammates level up. Working across the stack.

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

Honeycomb

There’s also a wonderful culture of documenting everything in living documents, so it’s easier to find things if I have questions. R : Multiple people have mentioned to me that it feels like they are able to start healing their scars from other tech companies when coming here. Q: What was the biggest surprise?

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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. Technical context: cloud instance specifics, region/availability zone, etc. is something you may be thinking.

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Outside-in Domain Landscape Discovery

Strategic Tech

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” Timeboxing and frequent, short retrospectives are valuable so that you can try things (e.g.