Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? Think of observability as the best gift organizations can give to developers (and, ultimately, to their bottom lines).

Software Review 52

Software Review Culture Systems Review Engineering Culture 52

Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

DevOps represents a change in IT culture. It is a mindset shift that seeks to break down preexisting siloes between development, quality, security, and operations teams. While the developers were pushing new functionalities into production, operations had to smooth away the difficulties. The case for DevOps leadership.

DevOps 52

DevOps Disaster Recovery Coaching Quality Assurance 52

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. My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. A small change with ripple effects. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

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. My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. A small change with ripple effects. No Q4 code freezes for us.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

The small signals get lost remotely, which means other things become much more important, like understanding people’s varying energy levels. When my colleagues in San Francisco start their work day, they’re high-energy and excited. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture.

Culture 134

Culture Engineering Performance Energy 134

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98