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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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Four short links: 18 March 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Inklewriter — open source interactive text adventure game creator. 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.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Gamification effectively means applying gaming mechanisms to a non-game context (source). Let’s translate it to a game. Imagine playing a game on your phone where you have to solve puzzles to go to the next level. The example of the mobile game is also through within organizations. What can we learn from games?

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

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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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

You need to be aware of the culture in the organizations you work for and realize that the tech can be used for good and bad. Paradoxically, locking down everything might make your platform less secure. Make sure the security office understands this, and make good agreements beforehand to prevent slowdown.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

Here at Honeycomb, we’ve always focused more on the problems we help our customers solve rather than playing the meta game of posturing in startup-land—so these fundraising blog posts are usually the least fun to write (and read, probably). TL;DR—This is a fundraising post! Yes, even in this economy. But this one is a little different.

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

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 ?