Honeycomb

APRIL 26, 2022

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different. In this post, I’ll show: . Why instrumentation is key to observability .

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

At some previous companies, demos were a semi-skippable event where you were unsure of the value of the feature. 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. The energy is infectious.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Techniques like big picture event storming are great for mapping out the business and visualising problems and opportunities, but that’s where progress can easily get stuck. How do you go from event storm to product and organizational improvements? One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Everyone at Honeycomb has been affected by the events of this year: the pandemic plus lockdown, school closures, complete life upheaval. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. For DevRel, 2020 was the year of the virtual event.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Everyone at Honeycomb has been affected by the events of this year: the pandemic plus lockdown, school closures, complete life upheaval. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. For DevRel, 2020 was the year of the virtual event.

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Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Results Transforming engineering with modern observability for logs “We adopted Honeycomb to enable a deeper understanding of the principles behind observability. Now, with Amperity’s 80 engineers investigating code issues, they can access a wealth of contextual information with Honeycomb that wasn’t previously available. .”

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” Event analytics (Frequency, failure rate, deployment, application). If we break it down, this data should include: Execution stack and bytecode.

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Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

In business, it can be something like a team dinner or the possibility to speak at a corporate event. . To power up your progress bar, something can be rewarded for completing. In games, you can obtain things like more power, status, or items. Social influence. People are motivated by other people.

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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

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. To do this effectively, we need a culture of confidence around the code that we take to production. Confidence : We ship fast and often.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. Most tech interview processes optimize for the 1-5% of the work we fantasize we could spend more time on rather than the vast majority of what the job actually is. — Fred Hebert (@mononcqc) August 5, 2020.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Once you start interacting with the UI of your bot, Slack will send out interactivity events. Let’s also configure your Slack App to send these interactivity events to your handler. The corresponding values of the block_id , action_id and value are sent along with the interactivity event whenever a user interacts with your app.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When I joined Discover® Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. We came together as one team across the organization to create a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and improvement.

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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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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

This information is recorded using a domain event. The initial event is then added to the landscape at the appropriate place. The initial event (a value exchange event) is added to the landscape approximately where it occurs. More domain events can be added to visualise the domain as a timeline.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

I would say that my whole career was a very unexpected sequence of very fortunate events. And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

If you read the book, you’ll see that the scenario is quite detailed plugging in real numbers and sequences of events to make it as realistic as possible. I’ve previously written about Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture , which shares some practical tips for getting started with design in general.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I think it’s important when you’re talking about chaos engineering to also talk about culture. In the event of an actual failure we probably still would have been down. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams?

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

So, in fact most of the other LaunchDarkly employees who are here have been doing amazing support on this event probably know considerably more about that than me. So, I can’t speak to what we were doing six months ago because I’ve only been there two months.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 15, 2024

tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0

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Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

Unconference) is a kind of event where attendees are in charge of the conference itself. Hence, fewer people are needed to organize the event. – Attendees can go in and out of the sessions without any expectation of staying the full session. These kind of events (i.e., Here’s my Experience Report about it.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Budgeting and longer-term planning Researching our competitive space and industry trends Meeting with customers and prospects, for a variety of reasons: to help a key prospect get excited about Honeycomb, to share best practices, or even to apologize for downtime or issues and communicate our plan for future improvement (thankfully rarely needed) Public (..)

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking. But it’s a rare event when a development team gets to spend even one day’s cost of delay. Customers said WOW!

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