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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read

Dzone - DevOps

I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Managing that interaction with the cloud is part of what cloud engineering is all about. To deliver applications cleanly, you need to manage infrastructure with pipelines just like you manage continuous delivery. You can bring the practices of application delivery to infrastructure as code with the maturity of cloud engineering.

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Improve your Functional Monitoring with the Functional Monitoring Quadrants

Xebia

Functional monitoring is a crucial part of any successful Continuous Delivery implementation. We often see development teams having difficulty striking the right balance between different kinds of monitoring, focusing on observability primarily in terms of technical metrics like error rate.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. As a business, the economics of this type of culture should tell you everything. There is a bigger pool of candidates?—?it’s

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

Strategic Tech

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. Another hurdle to decision making is when technology leaders feel that the skills needed to deliver big changes don’t exist within the organization like the lack of DDD, architecture, or cloud skills.