Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

Engineering Culture 80

Engineering Culture Software Engineering Software Review Culture 80

CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

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. At CircleCI, my team uses a short-lived branching model for software development. We build this together.

Software Review 132

Software Review Technical Review Engineering Culture Testing 132

Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

Software Review 52

Software Review Culture Systems Review Engineering Culture 52

Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

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. As Josh explains, “Quality data and context are imperative to sustain our advancements. The challenge?

Engineering 109

Engineering Engineering Culture Sustainability Fractional CTO 109

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The approach they’ve had the entire way through felt deeply centered on people-first, characterizing people as non-linear first-order components in software development , and fully aware of sociotechnical challenges The awareness of people’s value appeared to run deep throughout the company.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review System 138

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

The cost of these small domain-related changes (like renaming, and extracting parts of code) is so little that it should be a good habit of every professional developer. In this story, the engineers and project manager decided to be bold and spend the time improving the model at the risk of missing a deadline.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? My SRE team looks more like a software development team than it looks like assisted team. Some of them have that background but in reality most of them are software developers.

Engineering 9

Engineering Weak Development Team Development Team Review Testing 9