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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution

Honeycomb

Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0 While helpful in pinpointing known-unknowns, it impeded the team’s ability to explore the workings of the software, particularly in uncovering unknown-unknowns.

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

Watch this: Enterprise Software that is so easy a 10 year old can demo it. It is hard for an enterprise infrastructure software company to create simple products. Yet, users of those products want a consumer level of simplicity in enterprise software. of clicks to set up their product, . #

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

TechCrunch

It’s well-established that there’s a severe shortage of experienced software developers. In a February poll by Infragistics, more than half (53%) of software developers and IT professionals said that the biggest challenge this year will be recruiting developers with the right skills. million by 2030.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate. Our job as software professionals is to make it worth it to them. Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Collaboration delivers leverage.

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity? ” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. A development team can be very productive in terms of output, e.g., delivering several features quickly.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

In this post, we explore the concept of cross-functional teams in product development , discuss the benefits and challenges of running a cross-functional team, and give practical recommendations for building it. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing.

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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.