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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. Equally, it requires people who enjoy constructively reviewing and providing feedback. It requires people who are open to receiving and seeking out feedback on their ideas.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Next, performance models and metrics provide input for constructive dialogue and learning on performance for these levels, as well as serving as a base for predictive modelling.

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

Building blocks are often constructed using tools like Bicep or Terraform, both of which support the creation of modules that can be hosted in repositories such as Azure Container Registry or Terraform Cloud. These building blocks are available to all teams needing infrastructure resources, including the platform team.

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Building Your First Slack Bot with Block Kit – A Step-by-Step Guide

Xebia

text.text = `Hi, *${username}* -- Keep track of a counter.`; // Return the block return { statusCode: 200, body: JSON.stringify(myLayout) }; }; Within the handleInteractivity method you can construct a new layout. The new layout you construct will resemble the interactivity or change that was just sent.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems.

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Process

The Programmer's Paradox

The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized. That being said, there have also been some horrific homegrown processes constructed that revel in stupid make-work and creatively kill off the ability to get anything done.

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Mastering Hardware: My Nand2Tetris Journey Begins

Xebia

Boolean Arithmetic In this section, I used the gates I had designed previously to construct a Half Adder, a simple chip with two inputs ( a and b ) and two outputs ( sum and carry ). The course is well-constructed, introducing a few concepts at a time and building on each section in the next one. Was it worth it? Absolutely.

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