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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation

CIO

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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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team

Xebia

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. For most domains, for example Marketing, a budget should lead to a maximum result. Adding budget should hopefully provide more results. Agile is a company way of working, not an IT one.

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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. When implementing SLOs, organizations define not just the objectives but also the acceptable level of failure or imperfection, known as the error budget.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me. On top of that, every Netlifolk has an education budget per year to spend on books, courses and webinars to further their professional development.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

If this is not commonly accepted as part of ‘Done’, you might find automated test cases become a thing at the bottom of your backlog that becomes hard to plan or get budget for. This results in a steadily-growing set of tests becoming part of the development cycle. When writing tests, it is good to stick to the F.I.R.S.T

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