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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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

CircleCI

Gradually move code from feature branches to development, and then to production as a feature becomes tested and ready. Here are the ways that we accomplish this: Testing, in its many forms , is expanded from unit testing and security testing, to load and stress testing. Author: Vincent Driessen Original blog post.

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. When the team added Honeycomb’s event-based observability to their CI pipeline, flaky tests fell to just 5% and the release velocity dramatically increased. But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

It does this by combining principles rooted in transparency and experimentation with new technologies – particularly test, security, and deployment automation tools – and in the areas of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We shifted managerial roles from functional areas such as testing into tribe-leader roles.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Test that the capabilities you want to deliver are actually desired by the teams. Gaging early if teams are eager to onboard is your first test if your platform is feasible. Have clear goals before you start, start measuring your progress on these goals right away so you know you are on the right track.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

In August we hosted our Test in Production Meetup at the Meetup headquarters in NYC. Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. “This has led us internally to rethink what chaos engineering is at Datadog. What are we looking to measure?

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

So I built the speed task called fast.com, which is one of the most popular internet testing services today powered by open connect CDN. And as of today, I’m a hands-on engineering leader. Instead, I work extremely cross-functionally with partners and folks across the Netflix engineering group. Sachin: Interesting.

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