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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

DevOps or SRE? DevOps and SRE seem like two sides of the same coin. Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You? The Differences Between DevOps and SREs. link] pic.twitter.com/616uW4OQJu.

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Observability provides the ability to see inside your complex and distributed systems to know exactly what’s happening in real time. That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. Also, Honeycomb and the open source framework OpenTelemetry (OTel) are truly better together.

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Learn how to build a resilient software team

CircleCI

While I have a lot of strong opinions on how to best bring automation to engineering teams, it’s clear that the most advanced, powerful automation tools need one crucial element to succeed: people. For businesses, the first phase of the pandemic was about systems: updating and building your tech stack so you could operate as fully remote.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

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. . Emily Nakashima, VP Engineering, Honeycomb .

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

Honeycomb

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.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

By implementing gamification, managers can extrinsically motivate employees (for example, with point/reward systems) without touching the hard controls within an organization. Within many organizations, initiatives are started but not completed due to people losing motivation to take the last steps. Progress bars.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

But to give credit where it’s due: it’s natural for startup founders to look for ways to get more out of their team, and yet it doesn’t seem to be as natural to recognize successes by granting new titles and roles. A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems.