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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution

Honeycomb

tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Are you starting on your platform engineering journey? Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Are you looking at how to create a successful platform with lasting value?

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Using team sentiment and process health metrics to identify developer burnout

Allstacks

In the summer of 2021, we published an article on preventing developer burnout and tech culture’s historical tendency to glamorize being “so busy.” But our interest in the topic is more than a passing trend.

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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation

TechCrunch

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. . In other words, leadership cares for the forest and not the trees.

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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

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

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 Astro support developers through salary and promotion reviews, Samira also noted, assigning engineering mentors who advocate for the progress on developers’ teams. million by 2030. based workers.