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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. I highly recommend his writing on the topic.

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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices

Honeycomb

In the context of software development, particularly with observability 1.0’s s favorite three buzzwords (logs, metrics, and traces), we can draw several analogies to understand software development and debugging. In software, bugs and unforeseen issues represent this remainder.

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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? What went badly?

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. Fostering Human Processes.

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps. The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.

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How We Define SRE Work

Honeycomb

The charter (aka what site reliability engineers should care about). Take a long-term, holistic view of the system. Adapt work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Lead incident practices. Provide tools and assistance.

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Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Honeycomb

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. At Honeycomb, we work to build functionalities to enable you to be the best systems “detective” you can be.