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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Observability provides the ability to see inside your complex and distributed systems to know exactly what’s happening in real time. That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

How do you turn complicated, far-flung systems like our widely-distributed system of humans into teams? The small signals get lost remotely, which means other things become much more important, like understanding people’s varying energy levels. It’s our career-growth framework for engineers.

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

Honeycomb

The energy is infectious. There’s also a strong debugging culture. There’s also a wonderful culture of documenting everything in living documents, so it’s easier to find things if I have questions. We’re hiring across many departments (just so happens we have spots for new engineers, too)! At Honeycomb?

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Shipping Node.js at Netlify

Netlify

services: the Netlify CLI , the build system and the serverless function bundler are just a few examples. These are built on three key principles: Automation : By automating recurring tasks whenever possible, we reduce the margin for human error and free up our engineers to focus on the right things. All flavors of it.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. You can’t make your systems better if you don’t first make sure you’re thinking about the humans included in those systems. no oversharing or prying). No Q4 code freezes for us.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. You can’t make your systems better if you don’t first make sure you’re thinking about the humans included in those systems. no oversharing or prying). No Q4 code freezes for us.