Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

Social influence. Social influence is something heavily used in games to increase engagement. Some games allow you to earn achievements and share them on social media. Secondly, by earning badges or achievements which people share on (internal) social platforms, it becomes visible who the go-to persons are on a particular topic.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Games Social Systems Review 130

Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

My first DevOps role was at a startup consulting for other startups. My last company, a data analytics startup, was probably the biggest I’ve worked at (~500 people) where I split my time between “traditional DevOps” (i.e. I’ve spent most of my time at startups or smaller companies. I then moved on (burned out) to internal roles.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Culture 52

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I understand why: the stakes for public comment become higher as you move up the ladder, every social media post has the potential to be interpreted as a subtweet or request, and your highest-priority work is often deeply entangled with confidential company and personnel matters.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

Hardware 67

Hardware Engineering Software Engineering Culture 67

LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

Well, so what really has struck me about sort of the modern reality of DevOps and SRE life has been, I’ve gotten to know more of, has been this sort of deep shared responsibility for something that you didn’t make, that you can’t necessarily fix. Like you’re giving them a certain amount of social capital.

Weak Development Team 10

Weak Development Team DevOps Testing Agile 10

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . “The Am I a Monster?

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance How To Systems Review 52

LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

In chapter 3 (Agility and Leanness) he introduces DevOps, a set of technical practices based on cross-functional teams and heavy automation that effectively does away with the tradeoff between speed and control – you can have both. They create an engaging engineering culture. One team showed us how they decided what to work on.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91