Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. Attending conferences and meeting peers will help them do a better job. This is one of the reasons why IT budget may feel unpredictable at times; you never know what new threats arise.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Chapters meet regularly to discuss problems and share learnings in their field. Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another. Guild : a larger community of interest. Database, Business Logic, UI).

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge.

Architecture 130

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s have a look at the official definition: Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. What is a lean coffee? Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Why is the lean coffee a powerful format?

Groups 130

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Apiumhub

MARCH 3, 2022

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. No meetings. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Two people at least.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge.

Architecture 130

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He was a bit nervous but we had practiced 3 times before he was ‘on stage’ in front of hundreds of people and the zoom meeting turned to him. No one took me seriously… until that moment during an internal sales kick-off meeting. . “so Arjun (my son) sat next to me at my desk. so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”.

Enterprise 95

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Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zayo is well in front of this technical rub where these large demands meet the need for new network technologies in lighting services. I believe we are well positioned to meet the challenge because our teams at Zayo are in front of the technology on our routes. What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo?

Engineering 98

Engineering Network Engineering Culture Culture 98

Confluent

MAY 23, 2019

Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Remove blockers.

Software Review 59

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Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

It will be harder to meet other goals if their experience is under-prioritized. Carefully consider these factors before proceeding. Conclusion When building a platform be aware that you can not change how an organization works and software is developed just by bringing in new tools and technical capabilities.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By leveraging these contributions, consumers meet their needs, provide usability feedback, and enjoy ongoing enhancements. This mechanism ensures that the building blocks continue to meet the necessary standards. Utilizing Packages In the contemporary landscape of software development, packages have become indispensable.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. I was pretty skeptical of Netflix’s culture memo at first. I have been primarily involved in the payments space.

Data Engineering 55

Data Engineering Engineering Data Culture 55

CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

My teams are distributed across the globe, and most times, my teammates are reduced to pixels in Zoom meetings, Slack chats, and emails. When I joined CircleCI in 2018, I met with everyone in our engineering organization because I wanted to get to know the people we were working with. The sentiment struck a chord with me.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We wanted to showcase and demystify this part of our engineering team by interviewing several of our engineers to share their experiences in their own words. Meet some of our backend engineers… Bryan Mikaelian. We’ve cut down the number of meetings we have weekly by improving our async communication.

Engineering 52

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Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2022

During meetings, or “onstage,” employees agree with what their boss or peers say. Research consistently suggests that this formal approach to change management does not work. This failure is partly due to a discrepancy between what people say and what people do.

Groups 130

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Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

The chances are that if you have achieved something for 85%, you will also meet the last 15% to claim the full reward. . Within games, you see progress bars often used to complete a big task such as reaching the next level. By visualizing the progress of a big task using a progress bar, leaders can visualize the status of a big task.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Games Social Systems Review 130

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

The diagram below is one effort to identify more granular labels that I assembled for an internal meeting. Business stakeholders then get handed a clearer tradeoff: do we invest now, or do we decide meeting our 99.9% Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

This is where the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in software engineering is analogous to the remainder—the aspects of reality that cannot be fully captured, controlled, or represented by our symbolic systems.

Software Review 57

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Too often, these vital steps are treated as afterthoughts, sometimes even being left out completely as pressure to meet deadlines mount. Manual compliance tests, risk assessments, and audits are time-consuming and the bane of a developer’s existence. But, if you bake them right into the Paved Road, developers get them for free.

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Compliance Microservices Continuous Delivery Testing 130

Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

MAKE BIG DECISIONS IN MEETINGS, RATHER THAN IN ASYNCHRONOUS CHATS. So while Slack and its counterparts are great for chatter and asynchronous chats, Buffer now schedules synchronous meetings for making the big decisions. No one is expected to attend a 7:00 PM meeting every night simply because they’re in a different time zone.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Technical Advisors 75

Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission.

Infrastructure 73

Infrastructure Scalability Cloud Data 73

LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

As customers, we are pushing companies, which in turn push their employees to meet the increasing expectations. As consumers and end-users of software, our expectations are continually rising. We have to ship quickly because that is what we as consumers expect. It takes longer to resolve incidents. You lose customer confidence and sales.

DevOps 135

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

Our People (HR) team creates a Clubhouse ticket (project management software) that assigns tasks and due dates for everything ranging from granting the employee system access with IT to giving them branded swag to booking all their core meetings. It starts with logistics, lots of meetings, and a little bit of extra care.

Systems Review 66

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I didn’t meet that deadline, and carried it over to Q1 of 2021. If you feel your retrospective shines a light on difficulties other engineers might have, share it more widely in your organization. Learning “in the open” creates a kind of safety in an engineering culture.

Engineering 104

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. This time, we asked! Along with the title question, we also asked about their prior companies, how we differ, and what surprised them most about working here.

Engineering 52

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Eric and his team have a meeting with their project manager. If you ever meet Eric, you’ll quickly learn that he is all about modelling concrete scenarios rather than just working with abstract models. Eric explains that the refactoring adds short-term risk but reduces long-term risk.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds. And people skills?

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

A few title changes along the way were useful backward-looking markers of progress, but they didn’t often denote major changes in scope beyond (usually) new meetings to attend. I wish I could call out specific milestones on the path, but the truth is it was done in a thousand small steps.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements. Quality assurance engineer. For this, it’s important to conduct retrospective meetings after each sprint that target feedback and open communication among the employees.

Examples 52

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. my first meeting was about OKRs and it left me smiling. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

Part-Time VPE 57

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 57

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. my first meeting was about OKRs and it left me smiling. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

” And so if I had a bunch of people interviewing, it’s to take those exercises, try your best, and just try really hard, and demonstrate to somebody who is trying to evaluate you, like, “Hey, I’m going to try and meet the challenge. But I want to at least demonstrate that I’m going to try and meet the challenge.”

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

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.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

I’m kind of like this until like three in the morning and I don’t like going to meetings and I don’t like scheduling them when they’re hierarchical. I like that kind of meeting. While we’re having that meeting, there’s another service being created. I like to make room for that processes.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

Banks had to meet these expectations just to stay in the online game. For example, on a trip to the Google IO developers conference Ron van Kemenade was impressed by the amazing number of enthusiastic, engaged engineers at Google. They create an engaging engineering culture. They obsess over customers. This is lean.

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