A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity
DevOps.com
MAY 8, 2023
Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.
Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture
Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
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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What Is DevOps Culture?
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
At its essence, a DevOps culture involves closer collaboration and a shared responsibility between development and operations for the products they create and maintain. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.
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How CloudZero Built an Engineering Culture of Cost Autonomy
CloudZero
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
As a cloud cost intelligence company, we often like to say “every line of code is a buying decision”. If you’re running on AWS or one of the other big cloud providers, you know that a simple decision about how to architect an application can have a significant impact on your future cost of goods sold (COGS).
Micro-promotions and mentorship: the big impact of small actions in an engineering culture
CircleCI
APRIL 18, 2019
For the last decade, I have worked in male-dominated environments. While during this time I’ve encountered many nitwits and detractors, I’ve also been fortunate to encounter many proponents and advocates. Although no company is perfect, at CircleCI I’ve had opportunities to grow my career in an environment I enjoy.
Article: The Top Three Priorities for Engineering Leaders in 2022 and Beyond
InfoQ Culture Methods
APRIL 14, 2022
For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. By Lilac Mohr.
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Surviving SVB's Collapse and Outsmarting Uber with Kyte's Head of Product and Engineering, Nick Cobb
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 5, 2023
Of course, it hasn't been easy going for engineering leaders either. That's why Nick, the VP of Engineering and Head of Product at Kyte, sat down with us to discuss how to build an engineering culture with a bias toward action, why he deleted his team's staging environment, and what it takes to outmaneuver his former employer, Uber.
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Using team sentiment and process health metrics to identify developer burnout
Allstacks
JANUARY 20, 2022
Because we know engineering wants to take care of their people, Allstacks has a whole set of features and metrics geared toward keeping a pulse on the team and supporting healthy engineering culture.
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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team
Xebia
APRIL 20, 2022
If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. Agile is a company way of working, not an IT one.
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How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture
DevOps.com
JULY 2, 2019
The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com. They often happen after the team showcases the work done during the sprint reviews or demos. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […].
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10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 12, 2022
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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Technical Health Isn’t Optional
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Open Source and a Culture of Sharing. Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.
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An update on CircleCI's reliability
CircleCI
APRIL 13, 2022
We fully embrace blameless engineering culture and the DevOps principle of “you build it, you run it,” but the distributed nature of both our system and our teams has made that connection, communication, and resolution difficult.
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Four short links: 18 March 2020
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MARCH 17, 2020
Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding
Honeycomb
APRIL 6, 2023
Because of this, it’s especially rewarding for Honeycomb to be recognized recently for the work we do within our metaphorical walls, with Comparably naming us in over ten different categories , including “Best Company Outlook,” “Best Company for Diversity,” “Best Leadership Teams,” and “Best Company Culture.”
How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 6, 2021
In a first for the Dev Interrupted podcast , I hosted this episode live in front of a virtual audience during the INTERACT engineering leadership conference. Her lessons on team management, building company culture, hiring and mentorship are not to be missed!
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You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence
CircleCI
MAY 26, 2020
And while I concede there is no VCS branching model that fits all teams, I am happy to have learned that the option CircleCI chose exists, and to have experienced how it affects our delivery cadence, and the engineering culture we build around our product.
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The Programmer's Paradox
APRIL 13, 2023
I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. Not sure what happened, but my initial understanding of the role of DevOps comes from my experiences in the early 90s. We were doing very complex, low-level work. Worldwide massively distributed fault tolerance. Very cutting-edge at the time.
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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development
Apiumhub
MARCH 3, 2022
Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well.
Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran
Netflix Tech
JUNE 1, 2021
Netflix’s mission and its culture primarily drew me to Netflix. The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview
Thoughts on organizing architecture
Xebia
AUGUST 3, 2021
The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge. However, context matters here.
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Commerce Tomorrow Podcast
Joel Crabb
JULY 28, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.
Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos
Confluent
MAY 23, 2019
Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.
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Thoughts on organizing architecture
Xebia
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge. However, context matters here.
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How do you know DevOps is working?
CloudGeometry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. It matters just as much if you are writing code to update the network config or the website. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead. There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire.
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Employee Spotlight: Zayo Engineer Mark Jensen
Zayo
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo? What is unique about your culture? Our engineering culture is really a team atmosphere. I believe we are well positioned to meet the challenge because our teams at Zayo are in front of the technology on our routes. We rely on each other.
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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time
CircleCI
MAY 28, 2020
When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Combat hero culture and fix structural issues.
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On Learning New Things
Joel Crabb
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Second, I gave a presentation on technical culture rather than technology. It was a first to talk about building engineering culture , even though it’s what I’ve done for most of my career. But it was important to put Target on the map as a leading technical retailer.
How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JANUARY 28, 2019
Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ?
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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2022
Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. .
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Bringing AIOps to Machine Learning & Analytics
Cloudera
AUGUST 31, 2018
The Hyperpilot team is also well at home with Cloudera’s strong engineering culture and focus on providing customers an open platform for innovation. As my team joins Cloudera, we’re excited to build on our proven ability to bring the latest research in infrastructure automation to Cloudera’s platform.
6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization
Datavail
APRIL 6, 2022
Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. You should also consider whether your choice of technology stack will be able to provide solid performance and an appealing user experience now and into the future.
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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
LaunchDarkly
MARCH 17, 2020
You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling. The culture and tools are part of the equation; the final piece is having the right processes in place to effectively use the tools and support the people. Setting yourself up for success.
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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck
Capgemini
AUGUST 27, 2020
DevOps represents a change in IT culture. Leaders need to be culture builders by carrying the mission and strategy into the team and creating goals. Build the core DevOps team : The core DevOps team must accelerate the culture transformation and support the Agile squads in their adoption. The case for DevOps leadership.
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Is the Paved Road right for you?
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2022
This is down to your company’s culture. As I mentioned earlier, developers are encouraged to go ‘off-road’ and explore, or even fix the occasional pothole. Developers should be encouraged to take an active interest and not overstuff the central team’s backlog. Will your teams adopt it?
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Forbes names CircleCI to America's Best Startup Employers list
CircleCI
MARCH 11, 2021
A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Drive toward alignment.
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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity. It is a necessary cost to unlock a future where the average business user can get the full value from our Cloudera Data Platform by matching UX with their worldview and workflow.
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3 Ways Cluster Sprawl Creates Significant Waste and Risk For Your Organization
d2iq
AUGUST 17, 2020
Empowering Both Developers and Operators When adopting Kubernetes and other cloud native services, it’s important to think about how they’ll impact the engineering culture. When more time is spent putting out fires, there is less time for efficient operations.
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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?
Honeycomb
AUGUST 2, 2022
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)! The energy is infectious. appeared first on Honeycomb.
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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi
CircleCI
APRIL 12, 2022
Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.
Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie
Netflix Tech
JULY 15, 2021
The company was intriguing to begin with, but I knew nothing of the talent, culture, or leadership’s vision. After interviewing, it became clear to me that this company culture was different than any I had experienced. Keep an eye out for our open roles in Data Science and Engineering by visiting our jobs site here.
Functional vs non-functional software testing
CircleCI
APRIL 20, 2022
Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality.
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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team
Honeycomb
MARCH 16, 2023
Examples include: Embedding with product-engineering teams to create strong relationships and asking the right questions at the right time Facilitating conversations about reliability and scale within teams, and making these a part of the organizational culture Having a silo-crossing perspective to engineering within the organization, and taking a (..)
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Article: Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges.
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