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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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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. So that’s like a rolling three-week window or something. I guess is what I would say. That’s great. Larry: Right.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Our exec team works to mitigate this by providing a window into the strategy creation process and cascading context about team discussions to our ICs and especially our managers, but it takes ongoing effort and there’s always room to get better. Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.