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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

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. My experience is the opposite.

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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development

Apiumhub

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. Break the routine and allow the team to have another perspective on some parts of the project.

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Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Honeycomb

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. This is why we highly encourage all teams to instrument their code to emit telemetry data. .

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Your team’s testing practice should assess the entire application, observe the larger story of how it operates when functioning correctly, and raise alarms when deviations are found. Many teams don’t view security testing as part of their testing suite.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

Ourselves: to remind us what we’ve done, and to create an opportunity to reflect on how things have developed since. Our team(s): to give them a broader view of our work, to demonstrate openness about the highs and lows of being a software engineer, and to encourage a growth mindset. Who are personal retrospectives for?

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

Strategic Tech

A DDD Exemplar is a project, ideally achievable within a quarter, that results in improvements in a domain(s) and improvements in how teams build products. The goal of an exemplar is to show how DDD can be applied within a specific organization. It lays the foundations for other teams to copy and adapt.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Test that the capabilities you want to deliver are actually desired by the teams.