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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 look at the foundations of the Agile mindset, we see that one of its core values states: working product over processes and tools. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

Following an 18-month time period of rapid growth, which included seeing from 10 times to 30 times increase in all the metrics the company tracks — overall traffic volume, freemium sign-ups, paid usage and the number of customers scaling applications on top of the platform — Daily today announced $40 million in Series B funding.

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Improve your Functional Monitoring with the Functional Monitoring Quadrants

Xebia

We often see development teams having difficulty striking the right balance between different kinds of monitoring, focusing on observability primarily in terms of technical metrics like error rate. Technical metrics are helpful but might not tell the whole story. Quadrant 3: Business Metrics. Quadrant 2: Real User Monitoring.

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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

s favorite three buzzwords (logs, metrics, and traces), we can draw several analogies to understand software development and debugging. The real vs. simulated systems In Baudrillard’s terms, the authentic experiences and the real have been replaced by symbols and signs ( logs , metrics , traces ).

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

And, bonus, Honeycomb integrates easily into existing development tools, so teams can spend time innovating rather than context switching. Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day.

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. One way to address this complexity is to use a sophisticated testing tool like Selenium. Even with modern tools like Selenium, methods like closed-box testing take a long time to run and write.