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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

In episode 729 of Software Engineering Daily, Jeff Meyerson talks with our own Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly, about feature flagging. ’ That’s very liberating to the developer. ’ That’s very liberating to the developer. Jeff Meyerson (JM): Releasing software has inherent risk.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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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. While big data and machine learning engineers are in high demand, and thus expensive, they are important because they are the ones responsible for regularly retraining the models to provide accurate predictions and recommendations.

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

According to Doody, the key is to stop thinking in binary terms of “good” and “bad” outcomes and optimize for learning, instead. Thinking of outcomes as a spectrum rather than “good” or “bad” (5:13). Good” and “bad” are subjective terms when it comes to experimentation (32:39). Marcus: I love the sports metaphor.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. People need to grow and develop skills in order to move within the framework.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.