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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

Teams should be organized around seven key roles: the DevOps evangelist, change and deployment manager, automation architect, pipeline architect, quality assurance professional, security engineer, cultural change lead. A DevOps transformation is only technical on the surface: the success lies within the people. Olivia Taglich.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Building a suitable and sustainable platform is more than a technical challenge; it might also require a change in the way people work and sometimes new skills are needed. Measuring from the beginning will help you know that you are on the right path and provide you with early feedback. Make sure it has the right organizational commitment.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

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. “This has led us internally to rethink what chaos engineering is at Datadog. We’re moving from a world of game days to experiments.

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

Honeycomb

I had inadvertently shown the company that we could have these programs without planning for sustainable staffing, created hidden process debt, and suggested that we could take on major new efforts without making the tough tradeoffs that these efforts truly call for.

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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. Banks had to meet these expectations just to stay in the online game. This is lean.