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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. 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. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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

Strategic Tech

In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

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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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Article: Using Machine Learning for Fast Test Feedback to Developers and Test Suite Optimization

InfoQ Culture Methods

Software testing, especially in large scale projects, is a time intensive process. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Modern software systems are complex, with services distributed across data centers, in many zones, all around the world. 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.