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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.

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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation

TechCrunch

For example, a Microsoft study found that the outcomes of code reviews often don’t match the motivations, whether because of unrealistic expectations or insufficient developer resources. ” “Pulse gathers metrics that enable teams to understand performance without compromising a healthy culture,” Jorge said.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Tigran Sloyan got the idea for the company from an experience his co-founder and friend Aram Shatakhtsyan had while trying to find an engineering job. to study at MIT. Both from Armenia, the two went in different paths for college, with Shatakhtsyan staying in Armenia and Sloyan coming to the U.S.

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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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. Research and study. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. What can the team do?

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Improve your Functional Monitoring with the Functional Monitoring Quadrants

Xebia

Case study: A checkout flow. To give you an idea how these Quadrants can be used, I am going to use a generic case study that a lot of you can relate to: a checkout process. Together they paint a complete picture. Let’s look at the examples to learn more. Functional Monitoring in real life. It consists of 3 steps: Customer Details.

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Changing how we change

Xebia

For the past two years, I have studied different ways to approach this challenge as part of my coursework for a Masters degree in Management Sciences. When your team tries to change, does it stick to new things or are you back to the old ways after a few weeks? .

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