CloudZero

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As a cloud cost intelligence company, we often like to say “every line of code is a buying decision”. If you’re running on AWS or one of the other big cloud providers, you know that a simple decision about how to architect an application can have a significant impact on your future cost of goods sold (COGS).

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2022

Engineers are natural readers. 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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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 5, 2023

Of course, it hasn't been easy going for engineering leaders either. That's why Nick, the VP of Engineering and Head of Product at Kyte, sat down with us to discuss how to build an engineering culture with a bias toward action, why he deleted his team's staging environment, and what it takes to outmaneuver his former employer, Uber.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

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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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s It’s hard to have one piece of practical advice because a team of engineers is a living, breathing entity. Am I a Monster?

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Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

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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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. What’s your name, how long have you been here, and what do you do, as an engineer? My first DevOps role was at a startup consulting for other startups.

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CircleCI

APRIL 13, 2022

We fully embrace blameless engineering culture and the DevOps principle of “you build it, you run it,” but the distributed nature of both our system and our teams has made that connection, communication, and resolution difficult. Over the past 12 months, we’ve nearly doubled our engineering team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. . Codacy’s headcount stands at 100 staffers today.).

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another. Versus a pipeline that requires waiting for the DevOps team to deploy for them. Database, Business Logic, UI).

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Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

In a few years, he has grown to become a respected source of information for many people on DevOps and GitHub. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace this.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

Our industry-leading query engine and our BubbleUp visualizations make it a snap to zoom in on outliers, or search for unique identifiers such as build ID, and use Honeymarkers to pinpoint exactly where and when something went wrong with a release. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

The minute COVID-19 hit and everyone had to become not just remote-first, but remote-only, many engineering teams were forced to reckon with the number of manual processes they had in place. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Perhaps your focus is on breaking down traditional boundaries through DevOps practices. These packages are available through platforms like Azure DevOps Artifacts or GitHub Packages. Alternatively, are you fostering a collaboration mindset, emphasizing knowledge sharing and collaboration?

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

These companies would cherry-pick statistics from reports such as the Accelerate: State of DevOps Report. Let’s go back to the stats from the Accelerate: State of DevOps Report. If moving slowly and methodically wasn’t working, doing more had to be the key to success. It takes longer to resolve incidents. Yes, elite teams ship faster.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing. Software engineer. As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements. Quality assurance engineer. AdoptDevOps practices.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

You can also take this opportunity to implement new methodologies such as DevOps and agile that help make your IT teams more productive and efficient. Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well.

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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. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. 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. We’re pretty good.

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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. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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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. Larry: That’s an interesting question. Ramin: Sure.

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Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

Managers within enterprise organizations are a success factor for enterprise change (sources). However, they do find themselves on a challenging playing field. Part of this playing field is that they are both managing people while at the same time being managed themselves.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently.

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com. If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […].

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

I’m no stranger to remote work. I’ve been onboarded remotely and have onboarded remote employees before. But I have to say I’ve never been a part of onboarding someone fully remote, with my onboarding partners-in-crime also being remote, in the midst of a pandemic.

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