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

Xebia

For most domains, for example Marketing, a budget should lead to a maximum result. Adding budget should hopefully provide more results. From a risk point of view, IT-budget should be addressed as budget to prevent catastrophes. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace this.

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

Netlify

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? Meet some of our backend engineers… Bryan Mikaelian. There are lots of experienced engineers to learn from. Team: Growth.

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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. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams.

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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. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams.

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

Honeycomb

In practice, this may look like funding the CoPE from a customer success or product department budget, rather than engineering. For the CoPE to do its work, it needs insulation from powers which would halt changes it deems necessary.

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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

This is where the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in software engineering is analogous to the remainder—the aspects of reality that cannot be fully captured, controlled, or represented by our symbolic systems. In software, this can be likened to the parts of the system we do not fully understand or monitor.