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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

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. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

Test automation is not a project or a one-off—it is part of the development lifecycle and should be seen as its own system that needs to evolve over time as the requirements and system under test change and mature. Delivery pipelines and source code management systems help—for example, you can gate pull requests on a failing test.

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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. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Looking at the current technological and organizational paradigm, we can only recognize the world is massively different from 10 or 20 years ago. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Do you have the capabilities and time to guide the technical decisions?

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Looking at the current technological and organizational paradigm, we can only recognize the world is massively different from 10 or 20 years ago. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Do you have the capabilities and time to guide the technical decisions?

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Learn how to build a resilient software team

CircleCI

While I have a lot of strong opinions on how to best bring automation to engineering teams, it’s clear that the most advanced, powerful automation tools need one crucial element to succeed: people. For businesses, the first phase of the pandemic was about systems: updating and building your tech stack so you could operate as fully remote.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. Working across the stack.