TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Hiring engineers is “mission critical” for technology companies, but what became more obvious to her was that engineering functions have become necessary for all companies, Achadjian explained. Their traction was undeniable, and many of our portfolio companies were using CodeSignal,” she added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

“Because traditional outsourcing firms tend to attract non-tech clients and their culture revolves around billable hours, our team members were also unsatisfied with the outsourcing company that they worked for,” Samira told TechCrunch via email. Samira was adamant developers can opt out of the monitoring if they desire.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

She feels the pandemic showed that lowest-latency, high-performance video “is an incredible way to interact,” but that experience is locked in standalone apps that offer video communication and little else. Wincek said via email that Renegade invests in companies that have found product market fit and are ready to scale.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

And with Honeycomb, teams can easily monitor key factors such as performance degradation, response times, and resource utilization to ensure that systems continue to operate as they should. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift. But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

The characteristics of our flow, like short lived branches, and fast deployment cycles, have been shown to correlate with high performance teams. Our model synergizes extremely well with CI/CD best-practices. How you can do it. If you are accustomed to a more traditional flow like I was, this probably sounds scary.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. SLOs are specific, measurable goals set to ensure that a service meets the desired operational performance and reliability level.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. It can quickly consume your team’s engineering bandwidth. There are many types of non-functional tests: Performance testing. Performance testing. What is non-functional testing?

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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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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

The 2019 report showed elite companies have 46 times more frequent code deployments than low-performing teams and a 2,555 times faster lead time to move from code commit to deploy to support their initiatives to move faster. You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling.

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d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lack of Visibility and Management As various parts of the organization require new Kubernetes clusters, it becomes increasingly difficult to know where they exist, how they are performing, and to govern the usage and versions of cloud native software to support application efforts.

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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. When we were happy with how our code was performing, we’d give the code to the QA group. 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.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Before you begin, make sure you choose the most informative metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), so that you can track the project from onset to completion and beyond. 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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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2018

We leveraged our team’s involvement in academic and industry research that demonstrated 4-5X efficiency improvement in large-scale clusters at Google, building on techniques such as configuration auto-tuning, performance isolation, and machine learning based scheduling.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs , along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to.

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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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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Resilience is an activity they perform, rather than a property attributable to the organization. Once those passive maneuvers are up and running, the CoPE members merely need to perform regular check-ins, or play their own part if they are participants of the relevant social institution. They don’t take that achievement for granted.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. From hiring, to structured feedback, to performance reviews, it helps us hold everyone to the same standards and clarify expectations as we scale.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

The “User flow monitoring” quadrant aims to gain insight into the availability and performance of a critical business flow from a user’s perspective. Many observability tools will offer a simple library you can include in your application’s front-end to perform “real user monitoring.” How could we approach this checkout flow?

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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 other words, you want to be able to: Question the performance of your system.

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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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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Assessing our own performance as individual engineers - and telling the story of that performance to our colleagues - is difficult, and gets harder as we grow in our careers. Taking a relatively formal, personal system with us from role to role “frees” us from local performance management systems.

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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.” Reliability is not just about the infrastructure, it’s relevant every step of the way – from application quality, through performance and up to security.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me. During my tenure, I have been able to dive into areas that interested me and also added value to the company — performance and scalability.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

Performance Spark tuning is a mastery of its own. Most of the work is handmade by the senior engineers trying to optimize DAGs, skew data, counting errors, etc. Inject test data and job configuration files into the container by mounting a volume. Use compose to orchestrate the Spark job and its dependencies. Run compose.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

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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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

JANUARY 5, 2021

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. In fact, people normally gain emotional intelligence with age, he says.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. The two also dove a bit deeper into the topic of creating a culture of experimentation among your team. Leading with empathy—and using service level objectives.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

By setting a shared expectation up front for how services should perform, teams are then able to frame the need for scaling and reliability work in terms of risk to the SLO. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% SLO isn’t important and we’re ok with reducing the target to, for example, 99.5%?

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Most of them were dominated by horrible people or bad cultures. No wonder people don't trust us.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Our customers are doing great things with observability, like finding issues before their users do , executing challenging migrations more seamlessly , and making deploys boring —the markers of high-performance engineering. ” 96% of our employees also ranked Honeycomb as a great place to work.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

Five factors that create high-performing distributed teams. The research shows that there are five key factors that make teams high-performing: Psychological safety. But many of the practices that high-performing teams use are much easier to do when everyone is in the same room. Three Cs for leading high-performance teams.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that.

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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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