O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 17, 2020

Inklewriter — open source interactive text adventure game creator. 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.

Engineering Culture 54

Engineering Culture Open Source Software Engineering Games 54

Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Here at Honeycomb, we’ve always focused more on the problems we help our customers solve rather than playing the meta game of posturing in startup-land—so these fundraising blog posts are usually the least fun to write (and read, probably). I can’t wait to build the future of software engineering with all of you.

Technical Cofounder 121

Technical Cofounder Software Engineering Engineering Engineering Culture 121

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? by Anagaha, Software Engineer from Suki). Introducing things like stand-up comedy, indoor game tournaments, etc., a token of respect, a small payback. Entertainment break — Stand up comedy.

Open Source 157

Open Source Culture Engineering Culture Innovation 157

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. “I want to make video games.” Well, one, if you count me I guess.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Budgeting and longer-term planning Researching our competitive space and industry trends Meeting with customers and prospects, for a variety of reasons: to help a key prospect get excited about Honeycomb, to share best practices, or even to apologize for downtime or issues and communicate our plan for future improvement (thankfully rarely needed) Public (..)

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

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.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91

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.

Open Source 80

Open Source Engineering Culture Weak Development Team Fractional CTO 80