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SRE as a team sport

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Part of this type of engineering involves collecting metrics that can alert you to oncoming problems; another part is building up enough experience with SRE to see the problems in advance: "to skate where the puck is heading," as Beevers puts it. Continue reading SRE as a team sport. See our statement of editorial independence.

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Lessons learned turning machine learning models into real products and services

O'Reilly Media - Data

Why model development does not equal software development. A model that recommends what sports programs to watch, for example, would need to consider that the Super Bowl is huge in the U.S., Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy. Sometimes, the need to localize models is obvious.

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Learning what makes software development teams hum (1:40). Ron: My goal is to help software development teams to help product teams, those software development teams that are developing products and those that are developing services across the board help software development teams to hum.

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Can we stop misusing the word "Governance"?

The Agile Manager

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. Formal (regulated) metrics such as profitability are accounting phenomenon; it's easy to flatter the P&L with creative accounting. There are two popular misconceptions. But numbers are easily manipulated.

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Daily Crunch: Generative AI search engine startup You.com adds multimodal chat

TechCrunch

Passwordless authentication startup Descope secured $53 million in a seed round amid what company co-founder and CEO Slavik Markovich said were companies shifting their software development strategies to free up their development teams for other opportunities. But all is not going well. “We live in a new world order.”

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And maybe I’ll give sports analogy really quickly, which is-. You can do this in pretty much any sport where this happens. Marcus: I love the sports metaphor. So my primary business is coaching experienced software developers who get job offers from big tech companies. Marcus: Do it.

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

But, mostly when we’re thinking about engineering organizations, we tend to want to talk about throughput or volume metrics. I’ve never actually met an executive who told me that the development organization was fast enough. Because it is—sales is much more of an individual sport. It’s an individual sport. It’s weird.