O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

However, we haven’t seen any discussions of “technical health,” which suggests that industry at large doesn’t know what differentiates a company that’s been through a successful digital transformation from one that’s struggling. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.

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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).

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I decided to research this topic and hosted a discussion to find out what the industry thinks the meaning of a simple solution is in todays climate. From my own experience, research , and discussions, I have come up with a working definition of simple, packaged into an acronym as we all know the software industry loves a good acronym.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. We hope this is a moment of welcome change from the soul-crushing headlines plaguing the tech industry these past few months.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. And I just started getting really into web development. Thank you for joining us.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 13, 2023

2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

Both titles aim to bridge the gap between development and operation teams, with a unified goal of enhancing the release cycle without any compromises. Both titles co-exist in the same space, and both are an essential part of the development team; so how are they different, and what does each one mean? Let’s check it out.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Developers can make suggestions and adopt a style of working that’s more open and fits their needs,” he says. “If

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

Ever since Mark Zuckerburg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. The problem is moving fast doesn’t work across industries or for all teams. *Originally published on DevOps.com. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Industry and specialization: Specific industries may have their own preferred platforms or require niche features, such as technical skill assessments or industry-specific job boards. Define business goals: Increase quality of hire: Analyze your hiring volume, target talent pool, and industry.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience. is not just about software development.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

In many cases, these tasks ended up on the shoulders of the Data Engineers themselves. Cloud is not free During the last three years, what was once a problem for some has become a general issues for most of the industries that use data. Testing the small – Unit Test Ted Malaska gave a talk about testing the small.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I figured it was easier to brush up on specific pieces of tech than developing the higher-level attributes they were looking for, and they probably figured as much because I did get the interview. The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. Usually, this is correlated with an increase in complexity, because to make a domain more differentiating you need to develop greater expertise and capabilities in that area.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

A defective software development process, for instance, may appear to be reducing the overall number of bugs reaching the users, but the driving cause of the decreases might just be the throttling of the development effort. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized.

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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. Back in the dotcom boom, when software development became popular it attracted a great deal of outsiders.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When I joined Discover® Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. People: how Discover engineers grow through peer-to-peer teaching At Discover, continuous learning is ingrained in our culture.

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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. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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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. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Development shops span the range between the cowboys, who are just hacking at the code furiously, and the bureaucrats, that are so ground down in organizational paperwork that little actually gets accomplished. I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. Early on I moved away from the cowboys.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

At Microsoft, I worked in the Bing team helping to scale and optimize the developer ecosystem, particularly the massive continuous deployment and build system for the Bing product that Microsoft. And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. Uh, another fun question.

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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. And this helped us built one of the largest developer communities in the world, with over 2.5 million developers. And these potentials are the stepping stone to open innovation.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. That person would have had no skill.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Which makes sense of course, since two decades ago, building out the networking and compute capacity of the internet was one of the major engineering challenges of that period in the web’s history. They also got a taste of an exit without really getting the whole meal, if you will.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

This is particularly hard on engineering teams, where we always have to balance multiple priorities: security, reliability, performance, UX, shipping new features, iterating on existing features, internal developer experience, maintainability/tech debt, quality, scaling, etc. Is it having the desired impact? Is there friction?

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