Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Involve the development teams in what you want to measure. Keep the developers ’ interests at heart and keep stakeholders in check.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Modern businesses have to operate in a rapidly changing environment, so more enterprises are turning to cross-functional teams to foster innovation and stay competitive on the market. The example would be a marketing team, an accounting team, a developers’ team, etc. Let’s briefly discuss the main differences among them.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Tribes are capped at 100 people to minimize “restrictive rules, bureaucracy, politics, extra layers of management, and other waste” Chapter : people of a single skill area inside one tribe, e.g. testers or developers who work with a certain technology. E.g. A developer reports to a dev manager; a tester to test manager, etc.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. That’s a mistake.

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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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d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

All of these issues will eventually lead to inconsistent performance and reliability issues and an increase in security risks and development and maintenance costs. Empowering Both Developers and Operators When adopting Kubernetes and other cloud native services, it’s important to think about how they’ll impact the engineering culture.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

I have the good fortune of not only leading a developer-first company focused on delivering value to engineers, but also seeing how thousands of the world’s best teams move their code from idea to delivery. Having a team big enough to handle the day-to-day, while also being able to innovate, is crucial.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

While it caters to the majority, there are always going to be developers who need (or choose) to go ‘off-road’. This means that a central team builds and (mostly) maintains the Paved Road for the benefit of its developer clients. In turn, developers who choose the Paved Road agree to comply with its philosophy. Not so fast.

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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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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.

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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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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Legacy applications create pain points because they hold the organization back from innovation in other technologies as well. In addition to modernizing your.NET applications and development methodologies, you might also take this chance to renovate the underlying database, or fix chronic pain points such as data quality issues.

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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. Can we develop learning models to enrich metadata with application vulnerabilities and risk scores?

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

During the development of Operational Database and Replication Manager, I kept telling folks across the team it has to be “so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”. As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity.

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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. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

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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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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly enough to build and deliver your wondrous innovations. finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

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CircleCI

APRIL 12, 2022

Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

To me, this story is what DDD is really about: developing the design mindset of a modeller to drive product innovation and enable continuous delivery of value, involving frequent collaboration with domain experts. We were developing a core part of a large application for managing syndicated loans in an investment bank.

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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. Sachin: Interesting.

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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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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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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

For instance, if I feel that a design of an application or a pipeline would benefit from new technology or architecture, I have the freedom to explore and innovate without excessive red tape. Typically in large corporations, you’re tied to strict and redundant processes, causing a lot of fatigue for engineers.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges.

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

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