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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

It is a living document after all! Adjust work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Think of: Urban planners ’ roles around public consultation, transportation management, sanitation infrastructure, and sustainable growth.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. How do you document that? To your question, it’s also much harder to build new relationships.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

ICs may only come into contact with the outputs of this work in the form of an annual presentation or a summary document. Of course, there is engineering work that only fits into extended, quiet blocks of time and requires deep focus, but there was so much other stuff too.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

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. mortgages), and within each tribe, chapter leads provide functional leadership.