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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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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

Adjust work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Think of: Urban planners ’ roles around public consultation, transportation management, sanitation infrastructure, and sustainable growth.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

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. Sergey: I think I would respond with sort of a catchy phrase from our Netflix culture deck.

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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. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.