TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

She feels the pandemic showed that lowest-latency, high-performance video “is an incredible way to interact,” but that experience is locked in standalone apps that offer video communication and little else. Wincek said via email that Renegade invests in companies that have found product market fit and are ready to scale.

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

Of course, those platforms can only perform properly when the strength of the people behind them are optimized. So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. For us, it’s about enabling the technology platforms that support and deliver on that.”

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. It can quickly consume your team’s engineering bandwidth. There are many types of non-functional tests: Performance testing. Performance testing. What is non-functional testing?

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d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lack of Visibility and Management As various parts of the organization require new Kubernetes clusters, it becomes increasingly difficult to know where they exist, how they are performing, and to govern the usage and versions of cloud native software to support application efforts.

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

The characteristics of our flow, like short lived branches, and fast deployment cycles, have been shown to correlate with high performance teams. Our model synergizes extremely well with CI/CD best-practices. How you can do it. If you are accustomed to a more traditional flow like I was, this probably sounds scary.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

And with Honeycomb, teams can easily monitor key factors such as performance degradation, response times, and resource utilization to ensure that systems continue to operate as they should. Get granular visibility into the behavior of distributed systems before, during, and after deployments.

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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.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

The “User flow monitoring” quadrant aims to gain insight into the availability and performance of a critical business flow from a user’s perspective. Many observability tools will offer a simple library you can include in your application’s front-end to perform “real user monitoring.” How could we approach this checkout flow?

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 13, 2023

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. When we were happy with how our code was performing, we’d give the code to the QA group. Not sure what happened, but my initial understanding of the role of DevOps comes from my experiences in the early 90s. We were doing very complex, low-level work.

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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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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2018

We leveraged our team’s involvement in academic and industry research that demonstrated 4-5X efficiency improvement in large-scale clusters at Google, building on techniques such as configuration auto-tuning, performance isolation, and machine learning based scheduling.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Before you begin, make sure you choose the most informative metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), so that you can track the project from onset to completion and beyond. You should also consider whether your choice of technology stack will be able to provide solid performance and an appealing user experience now and into the future.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. From hiring, to structured feedback, to performance reviews, it helps us hold everyone to the same standards and clarify expectations as we scale.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 26, 2022

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different. In other words, you want to be able to: Question the performance of your system.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs , along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Assessing our own performance as individual engineers - and telling the story of that performance to our colleagues - is difficult, and gets harder as we grow in our careers. Taking a relatively formal, personal system with us from role to role “frees” us from local performance management systems.

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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.

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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.” Reliability is not just about the infrastructure, it’s relevant every step of the way – from application quality, through performance and up to security.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

Performance Spark tuning is a mastery of its own. Most of the work is handmade by the senior engineers trying to optimize DAGs, skew data, counting errors, etc. Inject test data and job configuration files into the container by mounting a volume. Use compose to orchestrate the Spark job and its dependencies. Run compose.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

The 2019 report showed elite companies have 46 times more frequent code deployments than low-performing teams and a 2,555 times faster lead time to move from code commit to deploy to support their initiatives to move faster. These companies would cherry-pick statistics from reports such as the Accelerate: State of DevOps Report.

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Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

Teams should be organized around seven key roles: the DevOps evangelist, change and deployment manager, automation architect, pipeline architect, quality assurance professional, security engineer, cultural change lead. 360° feedback helps informed performance, training needs, career development areas while reducing bias.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. The two also dove a bit deeper into the topic of creating a culture of experimentation among your team. “The Leading with empathy—and using service level objectives.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

By setting a shared expectation up front for how services should perform, teams are then able to frame the need for scaling and reliability work in terms of risk to the SLO. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% SLO isn’t important and we’re ok with reducing the target to, for example, 99.5%?

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. In fact, people normally gain emotional intelligence with age, he says.

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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

You can have different templates for different use cases: our bug report template asks users to perform specific commands to obtain information about their system that might help with troubleshooting, whereas the feature request template asks broader questions about the solution that the user is after. Automated tests.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

If I went looking for another startup to join at some point in the future, I would specifically look for an exec team or founding team that could cite examples of building up high performers for internal promotions — and swiftly recognizing and rewarding those already having impact outside of their role-defined scope.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? During my tenure, I have been able to dive into areas that interested me and also added value to the company — performance and scalability. We have dedicated Slack channels for each team, and notification channels for PRs and issues.

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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. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k. It is not ok and you should want better.

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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. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k. It is not ok and you should want better.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that.

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2023

We know that performing And logic where one of the operands is 0 results in a 0 output. The culmination of the section was the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit), a complex little chip that performs a range of mathematical and logic operations on two inputs. Only when both inputs are 1, is the output also a 1. A NAND gate work the opposite.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. They've been great opportunities to solve complex problems, learn new domains and to build things which make people happy.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Our customers are doing great things with observability, like finding issues before their users do , executing challenging migrations more seamlessly , and making deploys boring —the markers of high-performance engineering. Enabling your team to work better together, through observability, is our ultimate goal.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

Five factors that create high-performing distributed teams. The research shows that there are five key factors that make teams high-performing: Psychological safety. But many of the practices that high-performing teams use are much easier to do when everyone is in the same room. Three Cs for leading high-performance teams.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? We invited comedians to perform at Djangothon. a token of respect, a small payback. So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers? can make the hackathon experience enjoyable and truly memorable.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

In each of these sections, you typically first record the change in state of the workflow and then perform steps to move the workflow forward, such as executing a Stratum function or returning the results of the execution (For more details, see this presentation ). Today there are about 40 cosmos services and we expect more growth to come.

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