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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. When you focus on value delivery alone, you risk sustainability for the future. However, if you spend too much on development, the value delivered will be too low to sustain a viable business.

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day. No organization can afford to waste time or valuable engineering resources which is why adding observability into the tool mix is a “just makes sense” solution.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

Being on the leading-edge of software development requires quality observability insights, and the company wanted a new partner that could support their engineering charter for continual improvement and growth. Amperity’s observability depended on a suite of tools for logs, metrics, and dashboards. The challenge?

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

As such, the group needs access to independent funding and other guarantees that grant it sufficient power to do its work in order to sustain itself—in case certain factions try to impede it. Some parts of the organization may understand them as a blessing and others a curse. To build upon this analogy to safety departments, Provan et al.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Don’t treat metrics as an afterthought; start measuring the usage of the platform and how it contributes to your goals from the beginning. Using surveys you can start collecting valuable information fast and it is often a lot easier to achieve than capturing metrics through automation. Start collecting information by doing surveys.

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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. Like you will, you’ll have to design the main metrics.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

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Then the nice thing is is that because we own the CRD, because we own the PODs, we can metric the hell out of everything. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? In reality, I just think that approach is not sustainable.