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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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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. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 ” Samira and Astro co-launched Astro as Austin Software in 2018 in an effort to overcome these roadblocks to recruiting developer talent in Latin America, specifically countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. .

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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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You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence

CircleCI

The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. We learn things from concepts and processes to languages and tools.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

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. Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

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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?