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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Culture will eat any structure. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Their approach grew from their people and their culture. In addition, all attempts to document a culture are simplifications that are missing details that were important.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

You need to be aware of the culture in the organizations you work for and realize that the tech can be used for good and bad. Conclusion When building a platform be aware that you can not change how an organization works and software is developed just by bringing in new tools and technical capabilities.

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Is the Paved Road right for you?

Xebia

This is down to your company’s culture. For instance, it is in the CISO’s best interests to help set up the compliance and security tests to ensure the software being rolled out is as secure as possible, especially if you want continuous delivery. Will your teams adopt it? Conclusion.

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10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read

Dzone - DevOps

I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Managing that interaction with the cloud is part of what cloud engineering is all about. To deliver applications cleanly, you need to manage infrastructure with pipelines just like you manage continuous delivery. You can bring the practices of application delivery to infrastructure as code with the maturity of cloud engineering.