A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity
DevOps.com
MAY 8, 2023
Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.
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DevOps.com
MAY 8, 2023
Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.
Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery. It can be a cost-effective approach.
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CloudZero
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Getting engineers to take action to optimize spending can feel like an eternal struggle for many cloud-based companies. In fact, this particular issue is consistently considered to be one of the number-one cost challenges modern companies face.
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).
CircleCI
APRIL 18, 2019
For the last decade, I have worked in male-dominated environments. While during this time I’ve encountered many nitwits and detractors, I’ve also been fortunate to encounter many proponents and advocates. Although no company is perfect, at CircleCI I’ve had opportunities to grow my career in an environment I enjoy.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Staff engineers can influence behaviors during and after incidents by modeling transparency and questioning assumptions to strengthen engineering culture. In retrospectives, staff engineers can improved model root cause analysis to improve underlying cultural issues.
CIO
AUGUST 31, 2023
Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?
InfoQ Culture Methods
APRIL 14, 2022
For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. By Lilac Mohr.
Allstacks
JANUARY 20, 2022
Because we know engineering wants to take care of their people, Allstacks has a whole set of features and metrics geared toward keeping a pulse on the team and supporting healthy engineering culture.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Hiring engineers is “mission critical” for technology companies, but what became more obvious to her was that engineering functions have become necessary for all companies, Achadjian explained. Their traction was undeniable, and many of our portfolio companies were using CodeSignal,” she added.
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.
Honeycomb
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
It’s about seeing beyond the code and into the lived experience of the user, making engineering as much about human interaction as it is about technology. See how Pax8 transformed to an engineering culture of curiosity with observability 2.0. The post The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0
CIO
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. What we have discovered in implementing emerging technology at U.S. Banking on technology and people The largest technology investment for U.S.
Xebia
APRIL 20, 2022
The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. These are some of the aspects for empowering your IT-crew and creating and truly adopting an engineering culture that will help your company to attract and keep top talent.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
DevOps teams work autonomously and embrace a software engineering culture, workflow, and toolset that elevates operational requirements to the same level of importance as architecture, design and development. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 12, 2022
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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Daily has real platform potential — it’s a great product with stellar engineering culture, coupled with Kwin’s experience building video for the enterprise. “In the future, video calls will not look like Zoom, and they will be powered by Daily,” she added.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
“This way, they follow what their colleagues in other departments are already doing by measuring performance while not compromising their engineering culture.”
CIO
MARCH 22, 2023
So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.
Xebia
JANUARY 11, 2024
Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment. Generally, people think it is a good idea to create an environment with high alignment and high autonomy.
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MARCH 17, 2020
Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.
Xebia
AUGUST 3, 2021
The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge. However, context matters here.
Joel Crabb
JULY 28, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.
Joel Crabb
JULY 28, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.
Joel Crabb
JULY 28, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.
Xebia
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge. However, context matters here.
CloudGeometry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. It matters just as much if you are writing code to update the network config or the website. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead. There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire.
CircleCI
MAY 26, 2020
And while I concede there is no VCS branching model that fits all teams, I am happy to have learned that the option CircleCI chose exists, and to have experienced how it affects our delivery cadence, and the engineering culture we build around our product.
Joel Crabb
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Second, I gave a presentation on technical culture rather than technology. It was a first to talk about building engineering culture , even though it’s what I’ve done for most of my career. But it was important to put Target on the map as a leading technical retailer.
Honeycomb
MAY 24, 2023
Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day. That may sound like a stretch, but smaller deploys are easier to manage than large ones, and this is definitely a place where observability plays an important role.
Confluent
MAY 23, 2019
Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.
Apiumhub
MARCH 3, 2022
Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well.
Cloudera
AUGUST 31, 2018
The Hyperpilot team is also well at home with Cloudera’s strong engineering culture and focus on providing customers an open platform for innovation. As my team joins Cloudera, we’re excited to build on our proven ability to bring the latest research in infrastructure automation to Cloudera’s platform.
The Programmer's Paradox
APRIL 13, 2023
I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. Not sure what happened, but my initial understanding of the role of DevOps comes from my experiences in the early 90s. We were doing very complex, low-level work. Worldwide massively distributed fault tolerance. Very cutting-edge at the time.
Joel Crabb
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Second, I gave a presentation on technical culture rather than technology. It was a first to talk about building engineering culture , even though it’s what I’ve done for most of my career. But it was important to put Target on the map as a leading technical retailer.
Zayo
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo? What is unique about your culture? Our engineering culture is really a team atmosphere. I believe we are well positioned to meet the challenge because our teams at Zayo are in front of the technology on our routes. We rely on each other.
d2iq
AUGUST 17, 2020
Empowering Both Developers and Operators When adopting Kubernetes and other cloud native services, it’s important to think about how they’ll impact the engineering culture. When more time is spent putting out fires, there is less time for efficient operations.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity. It is a necessary cost to unlock a future where the average business user can get the full value from our Cloudera Data Platform by matching UX with their worldview and workflow.
CircleCI
APRIL 20, 2022
Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality.
Github
MARCH 11, 2020
As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”. Clear and documented ownership of projects allows each team to manage the chaos of different workstreams without shutting them off from great ideas. Get new ideas to customers faster.
Datavail
APRIL 6, 2022
Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. You should also consider whether your choice of technology stack will be able to provide solid performance and an appealing user experience now and into the future.
CircleCI
JANUARY 22, 2021
A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix, which is woven into everything we do.
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