Culture Engineering Culture Sustainability Systems Review 
Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
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.
Honeycomb
MAY 24, 2023
Observability provides the ability to see inside your complex and distributed systems to know exactly what’s happening in real time. That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.
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Honeycomb
MARCH 16, 2023
But looking at the responsibilities we were taking around vendor negotiations, voluntarily cross-pollinating silos and impacting engineering teams roadmaps in anticipation of scaling needs, we decided to rework that whole category into a broader “system-level” perspective. It therefore feels like a more adequate fit to our function.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. . The charter (aka what site reliability engineers should care about). Lead incident practices.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. Sociotechnical systems and context awareness. Fostering Human Processes. is pivotal.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. no oversharing or prying). No Q4 code freezes for us.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. no oversharing or prying). No Q4 code freezes for us.
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