O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

However, we haven’t seen any discussions of “technical health,” which suggests that industry at large doesn’t know what differentiates a company that’s been through a successful digital transformation from one that’s struggling. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. We hope this is a moment of welcome change from the soul-crushing headlines plaguing the tech industry these past few months.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

Our industry-leading query engine and our BubbleUp visualizations make it a snap to zoom in on outliers, or search for unique identifiers such as build ID, and use Honeymarkers to pinpoint exactly where and when something went wrong with a release.

Software Review 52

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. One industry leader defines it as “a licensing and delivery model where software is centrally managed and hosted by a provider and may be made accessible to customers on a subscription or pay-per-view basis.”

DevOps 130

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I decided to research this topic and hosted a discussion to find out what the industry thinks the meaning of a simple solution is in todays climate. From my own experience, research , and discussions, I have come up with a working definition of simple, packaged into an acronym as we all know the software industry loves a good acronym.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 13, 2023

2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2018

We leveraged our team’s involvement in academic and industry research that demonstrated 4-5X efficiency improvement in large-scale clusters at Google, building on techniques such as configuration auto-tuning, performance isolation, and machine learning based scheduling.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

Challenge As a new company poised to transform the financial services industry with its modern money movement platform, Moov wanted an equally modern observability platform as part of the company’s operational tech stack.

Fractional CTO 45

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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. You also have the opportunity to come up with new ideas or rule sets that could not only be a progression for your team but for our industry. We rely on each other.

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2023

His death was a loss to the computer industry as he was considered one of the last people who truly understood hardware and software at a fundamental level. In 2010 a man named Maurice Wilkes died. The eye opener was that every CPU in existence, at its lowest level, comes down a complex dance of such gates processing signals.

Hardware 130

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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 ? And being one of the industry leaders in hackathons, we had a reputation to uphold! a token of respect, a small payback. So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Industry and specialization: Specific industries may have their own preferred platforms or require niche features, such as technical skill assessments or industry-specific job boards. Define business goals: Increase quality of hire: Analyze your hiring volume, target talent pool, and industry.

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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.”. It’s how people build proprietary software across industries, teams, and time zones. Get new ideas to customers faster. Opening up a project invites more ideas.

Organization 71

Organization Software Review Open Source Part-Time VPE 71

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.” In order to better communicate and build better products, DevOps became one of the most critical positions in every company.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. However, we have fairly different backgrounds and skill sets.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

In many cases, these tasks ended up on the shoulders of the Data Engineers themselves. Cloud is not free During the last three years, what was once a problem for some has become a general issues for most of the industries that use data.

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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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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

The problem is moving fast doesn’t work across industries or for all teams. The 2019 report showed elite companies have 46 times more frequent code deployments than low-performing teams and a 2,555 times faster lead time to move from code commit to deploy to support their initiatives to move faster.

DevOps 135

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. Two companies I recently spoken to were facing a similar challenge: they had made a major pivot in their business model and were forging a new industry.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

He or she is one of the key faces of engineering and the company and enables awareness of the company while attracting talent and participating in tech conferences. Principal Engineer is in charge of driving engineering culture. What is the role of a Principal Engineer in a company.

Engineering 32

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

I wouldn’t go as far as to say “tech industry therapy,” but Honeycomb leadership’s investment in good management is something I haven’t seen before. doesn’t turn any heads; everyone I’ve talked to has experience with what it takes to build a great organization (and product), from all different perspectives of the industry.

Engineering 52

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

Hardware 67

Hardware Engineering Software Engineering Culture 67

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review System 138

The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

Unfortunately the currently available choices out there in the industry are all seriously lacking in their design. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized.

Engineering Culture 45

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Our industry track record is quite horrible right now.

Software Development 40

Software Development Film Software Engineering Culture 40

The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. I remember reading decades ago in Scientific American about how the pharmaceutical industry moved from art, to science and then on to engineering. Early on I moved away from the cowboys. They were driving me nuts. That wasn’t always the case.

Engineering 40

Engineering Software Pharmaceuticals Software Development 40

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

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. So I think I was becoming more of a generalist over time. I agree with you on the Python bit. Thanks for that.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

I think what was I trying to say, is like this is the industry secret, is that we will go have lunch with you. I’m curious as another hiring manager, how do you feel about candidates demanding to have lunch with you until they say yes? Ben Vinegar: Yeah. Rebecca Murphey: We will go have lunch with you.

Weak Development Team 52

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

Across the Charles River, Harvard Business School was also looking into the automotive industry, and in 1991 it published “Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry” [11] by Kim B. They create an engaging engineering culture. Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91

LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

I do like that the industry seems to be getting better at management. I often thought as the industry grew so quickly, they would promote somebody and be like, you’re a manager. As well we’re kind of learning from the industry. The last 10 years I’ve actually worked for a couple of managers that did it well.

Weak Development Team 10

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Which makes sense of course, since two decades ago, building out the networking and compute capacity of the internet was one of the major engineering challenges of that period in the web’s history. It attracted a weird bunch of folks — the exact kind of weirdness that happens to make good startup founders, apparently.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Perhaps surprisingly, those two trends don’t usually translate to making a startup VP of Engineering job one of the most lucrative in the Bay Area. Honeycomb has long taken a principled approach to compensation and sticks to relatively narrow comp bands shaped by industry data from similar stage companies. Is there friction?

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