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Independent, Involved, Informed, and Informative: The Characteristics of a CoPE

Honeycomb

As our Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones says , production excellence is important for cloud-native software organizations because it ensures a safe, reliable, and sustainable system for an organization’s customers and employees. A CoPE helps organizations cultivate the practices and tools necessary to achieve that consistently.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Building a suitable and sustainable platform is more than a technical challenge; it might also require a change in the way people work and sometimes new skills are needed. You need commitment from management to support the budget and communicate the importance. Make sure it has the right organizational commitment.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? ” It’s always about the error budget, the SLO, the SLI. We’ve already blown through our error budget, we’re already at two nines. I think in the headquarter, the New York Times.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

I had inadvertently shown the company that we could have these programs without planning for sustainable staffing, created hidden process debt, and suggested that we could take on major new efforts without making the tough tradeoffs that these efforts truly call for. Are we executing against the strategy as planned? Is there friction?

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. They create an engaging engineering culture. They obsess over customers.