Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This could be a principal engineer or assigned to a group of people, e.g. the product engineering team. A senior engineer or team lead can be appointed as the tie-breaker. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Petri dishes are used as an apt analogy for small groups within an organization. These groups might mirror people’s roles – accounting, HR, sales, etc – or could be informal, reflecting friendships and other social connections. Just like a petri dish used in a science lab, these small groups are a prime place for cultivating beliefs.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 13, 2023

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. When we were happy with how our code was performing, we’d give the code to the QA group. It was more like we were a vendor than an internal group. We were doing very complex, low-level work. Worldwide massively distributed fault tolerance.

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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. Pair programming, mob programming, group work … you name it. No individual work. Two people at least.

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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.

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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. Zayo currently has 15 open engineering positions and other open technical and business positions in Colorado and its global locations. We rely on each other.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 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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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Group and analyze. Start out by grouping related bullet points together. As they become clearer, label these groups with themes. If you’re using something like 4Ls, you should be able to snip up your groupings along those lines. Learning “in the open” creates a kind of safety in an engineering culture.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

Eventually, the team gets too large and that’s when you split them into smaller groups. 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.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 26, 2022

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different. Investigation best practices. The second involves giving yourself the room and flexibility to test.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Changes to these packages undergo review and approval processes, typically overseen by package maintainers—dedicated groups of individuals who consistently contribute to the package’s development and upkeep. In addition to open-source packages, organizations also rely on company-specific packages.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. I was pretty skeptical of Netflix’s culture memo at first.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” They minimize and bridge the teams into one group, with a shared vision. SREs doesn’t talk about how many silos are in the company, but more about how to get everyone to discuss.

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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

They are a fundamental piece in our engineering culture, since they give us the confidence we need to ship to production often with a lower risk of introducing regressions. A good test suite is also important when onboarding new engineers to a project, or when accepting external contributions from the open-source community.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

People often end up pairing when there’s a need, or a desire for social contact, and sometimes these turn into huge group sessions that last for hours when nobody watches time , with everybody doing their thing and working almost as if we were sitting right next to each other.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I recently hosted a session at Xebia Knowledge Exchange and asked a group of 24 people in our industry this question. I divided them into groups of 6 using the liberating structures format. The main takeaway for the group was that simple ? Effective/Efficient. Low rules/cognitive-load. Contextual. Understandable. Understandable.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

We’re especially thrilled to add companies like Robinhood, Moov, Frasers Group, and Equinix to our growing list of customers like Vanguard, Slack, and Vercel. We’ll never lose sight of what it means to build a tool that, in turn, streamlines processes and enriches engineering cultures.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And as of today, I’m a hands-on engineering leader. Instead, I work extremely cross-functionally with partners and folks across the Netflix engineering group. And I help to kind of drive major engineering initiatives in areas related to client-server network interactions. I don’t really manage the team.

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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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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Several squads are grouped into larger units called tribes that are usually focused on a specific area of the business, like a backend infrastructure, music player, or else. These are the groups of employees who share a common area of expertise, regardless of the squad they belong to. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

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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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

End-users can reserve Stratum computing resources for their own business use case, and resource pools are hierarchical to allow groups of users to share resources. Stratum manages function execution latency in a few ways: Resource pools. Warm capacity. End-users can request compute resources (e.g. Micro-batches.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

“It’s a full, solid week of understanding what Mailchimp’s culture is, what our history is, what it’s all about.”. The company’s two founders do a chat with every single new hire orientation group, which takes place every two weeks.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

And that’s in a scene, especially in my recent group too, of you shouldn’t have to be experts in front engineering to ship decent, at least, user interface. Rebecca Murphey: Yeah. And I think it’s been really interesting too, like making getting it right accessible to more people.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

If a group of people exceeds this number, there’s a need for decentralization. When facilitating a 1-hour lean coffee session for around thirty people, you can create three groups of ten people. Let each group follow the lean coffee format for approximately 45 minutes and then have a central merge for another 15 minutes.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills. The further you go on the management ladder, the more doing a good job in your role can become decoupled from appearing to your team to do a good job in your role.

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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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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

No longer was it practical for experts to write requirements and send them to a support group where programmers wrote code and testers wrote corresponding tests and then reconciled the two versions of the requirements; finally, after weeks, months or even years, a big batch of new code was released to consumers (aka. This is lean.

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