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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. An architect for an in-shop product engineering department requires different capabilities and attitudes compared to an architect that has to work with vendors and ensure successful integration. Do I need an architect?

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. An architect for an in-shop product engineering department requires different capabilities and attitudes compared to an architect that has to work with vendors and ensure successful integration. Do I need an architect?

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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. We are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts of spheres.