CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. We learn things from concepts and processes to languages and tools.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

The rollercoaster of 2020 highlighted the competitive advantage that well-oiled software delivery teams provide. The minute COVID-19 hit and everyone had to become not just remote-first, but remote-only, many engineering teams were forced to reckon with the number of manual processes they had in place. Think of Amazon’s Two Pizza Rule.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. . The charter (aka what site reliability engineers should care about). I’ll share it here. .

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

And indeed, in most companies we can see that there’s a requirement for just one of these positions, with an overlap in responsibilities and abilities. The differences and lack of communication between these teams often impacted the product, which in return affected the end users and company. 2 Accept Failure as Normal.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Even if you’ve never heard the term “innersource” to describe how teams build their software, you’ll probably still recognize some of the principles behind it. They’re powering code at the world’s most influential companies, and they might even be important practices on your team. Innersource isn’t a novel concept.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I’ve got a ton of personal reasons for joining Honeycomb that may not be worth being all public about, but after thinking for a while, I realized that many of the things I personally found interesting could point towards attitudes that result in better software elsewhere. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. What is a personal retrospective? What went badly?

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs , along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. Along with the title question, we also asked about their prior companies, how we differ, and what surprised them most about working here. This time, we asked!

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

.* I understand why: the stakes for public comment become higher as you move up the ladder, every social media post has the potential to be interpreted as a subtweet or request, and your highest-priority work is often deeply entangled with confidential company and personnel matters.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

The price of cloud computing has risen due to the combination of a growing demand and more expensive hardware: Disruption of the supply chain: shortages of chips (GPU, CPU), back orders, broken stocks. Covid-19: remote work was implemented by many companies by relying on cloud services. Data Engineer burnouts.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Running untrusted code in-process and ensuring it doesn’t spend too long executing and doesn’t block the whole process. As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone. There are lots of experienced engineers to learn from.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Honeycomb, the company. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Honeycomb, the company. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

It also shares some lessons we’ve learned that we think will help other companies and leaders facing similar challenges. Our Ops team does the lion’s share of the work in areas that, in other companies, are often left to the hiring manager. It takes a village. This is all our normal process. Have any tips to share?

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

According to Deloitte research of 2022, 83 percent of “digitally maturing” companies reported using cross-functional teams. For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

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?” Then they give value to the companies in return, in the form of money or data.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Our tools provide a surprisingly deep level of insight, into your applications for your engineers. As a result, it makes things like chaos engineering far easier to build and adapt and grow. It’s in the DNA of our company to be thinking about performance, and monitoring, and resiliency. Why should you listen to me?

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. I guess is what I would say. That’s great.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 15, 2024

tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. The Nature of Software “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s May 27, 1997. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task.

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