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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 ” Samira and Astro co-launched Astro as Austin Software in 2018 in an effort to overcome these roadblocks to recruiting developer talent in Latin America, specifically countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. .”

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Enhancing Domain-Driven Design Through Collaborative Systems Thinking

Xebia

Domain-driven design (DDD) has emerged in software engineering as a methodology for tackling complex domain problems by connecting the implementation to an evolving model. Resistance to change, entrenched organizational cultures, and the theories’ complexity can pose significant barriers.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Above a certain level, leadership promotions have to be about what the company needs, not the individual, and it was valuable to imagine together what a great VP of Engineering for Honeycomb might look like. The book covers many different engineering leadership roles and how one might work toward preparing for each.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.