Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. 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.
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.” This can lead to frustration, a set back in deployment and high costs due to delays. So why did Google need to create its own definition? The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.
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Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
But to give credit where it’s due: it’s natural for startup founders to look for ways to get more out of their team, and yet it doesn’t seem to be as natural to recognize successes by granting new titles and roles. A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems.
Honeycomb
MARCH 16, 2023
But looking at the responsibilities we were taking around vendor negotiations, voluntarily cross-pollinating silos and impacting engineering teams roadmaps in anticipation of scaling needs, we decided to rework that whole category into a broader “system-level” perspective. It therefore feels like a more adequate fit to our function.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. no oversharing or prying). No Q4 code freezes for us.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. no oversharing or prying). No Q4 code freezes for us.
CircleCI
MAY 28, 2020
How do you turn complicated, far-flung systems like our widely-distributed system of humans into teams? 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. It’s our career-growth framework for engineers.
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