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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

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Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Emily Nakashima, VP Engineering, Honeycomb .

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

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But looking at the responsibilities we were taking around vendor negotiations, voluntarily cross-pollinating silos and impacting engineering teams roadmaps in anticipation of scaling needs, we decided to rework that whole category into a broader “system-level” perspective. It therefore feels like a more adequate fit to our function.

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

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The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” This can lead to frustration, a set back in deployment and high costs due to delays. So why did Google need to create its own definition? The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

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When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone.