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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

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. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. My experience is the opposite.

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Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Honeycomb

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. This is why we highly encourage all teams to instrument their code to emit telemetry data. .

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DevOps

The Programmer's Paradox

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. The different teams were scattered all over the planet, so coordinating all of the efforts was vital. The QA team had its own separate repo, and more importantly, they had their own environment configurations for our code as well.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

Ourselves: to remind us what we’ve done, and to create an opportunity to reflect on how things have developed since. Our team(s): to give them a broader view of our work, to demonstrate openness about the highs and lows of being a software engineer, and to encourage a growth mindset. Who are personal retrospectives for?

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. So, I guess I’m a bad expert on process.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

Netflix Tech

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. The centralized data model that had served us well when we were a small team became a liability.