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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.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. Adjust work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

As such, the group needs access to independent funding and other guarantees that grant it sufficient power to do its work in order to sustain itself—in case certain factions try to impede it. Some parts of the organization may understand them as a blessing and others a curse. To build upon this analogy to safety departments, Provan et al.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

Teams should be organized around seven key roles: the DevOps evangelist, change and deployment manager, automation architect, pipeline architect, quality assurance professional, security engineer, cultural change lead. 360° feedback helps informed performance, training needs, career development areas while reducing bias.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. We’re trying to build something sustainable here, and the people who make up Honeycomb are more than just “resources.” A small change with ripple effects. It is not ok and you should want better.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. We’re trying to build something sustainable here, and the people who make up Honeycomb are more than just “resources.” A small change with ripple effects. It is not ok and you should want better.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. They create an engaging engineering culture. Womack, Daniel T. This is lean.