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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

Within IT, DevOps answers the global call for organizational transformation. The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. However, shifting to DevOps is only possible when there are capable and transformative leaders at the helm. How do we bring this to life?

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10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read

Dzone - DevOps

I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Gamification effectively means applying gaming mechanisms to a non-game context (source). Let’s translate it to a game. Imagine playing a game on your phone where you have to solve puzzles to go to the next level. The example of the mobile game is also through within organizations. What can we learn from games?

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Paradoxically, locking down everything might make your platform less secure. Make sure the security office understands this, and make good agreements beforehand to prevent slowdown.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

He shared his experiences from when he led the SRE team at Netflix, and how thats influenced the way he’s helped the Datadog team put process around chaos engineering experiments. “This has led us internally to rethink what chaos engineering is at Datadog. We’re moving from a world of game days to experiments.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

For me, the path to front end engineering began with, I don’t know, just went to college, studied computer science. I just wanted to make video games, which I think is how a lot of people get into programming early in their careers. “I want to make video games.”

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems. That’s an important statement.