James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. It tends to snap back.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

It’s well-established that there’s a severe shortage of experienced software developers. In a February poll by Infragistics, more than half (53%) of software developers and IT professionals said that the biggest challenge this year will be recruiting developers with the right skills. million by 2030.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. The Essence of Collaboration The goal of domain-driven design is to translate the complexity of a context to a software design level. But What Are Systems?

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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.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps. The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

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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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

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