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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. Those people are your influencers.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

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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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

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.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

Netflix Tech

Dhevi joined Netflix in July 2020 and is one of many Data Engineers who have onboarded remotely during the pandemic. In this post, Dhevi talks about her passion for data engineering and taking on a new role during the pandemic. One great thing about working with data is the impact you can create as an engineer.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. What is a personal retrospective?

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

Start from the bottom The first thing to do is find as many of those intrinsically-motivated individuals and bring them together in a regular meeting to talk about the CoPE’s mandate, what they want to achieve, and why.

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

Honeycomb

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.