InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The article explores optimizing test execution, saving machine resources, and reducing feedback time to developers. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available. By Gregor Endler, Marco Achtziger.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of.

Software Development 92

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Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. Arjan kept asking me for an article for the XPRT. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This article delves into enriching the collaboration topic by emerging the contextual systems and the need to find the purpose underneath the context. culture, ethnicity, gender, society). Resistance to change, entrenched organizational cultures, and the theories’ complexity can pose significant barriers.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By harnessing these patterns, organizations can streamline their development workflows, cultivate a culture of transparency, and drive innovation through collective efforts. Promoting InnerSource cultivates a culture of openness and transparency, resonating throughout the organization and enhancing company culture and employee morale.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers itself. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

In this article I will discuss the pros and provide a few questions you should ask before implementing it. In her 2017 OSCON presentation , Netflix’s Dianne Marsh describes the Paved Road as ‘ A concept, formalizing a set of expectations and commitments between the centralized teams and our engineering customers ’.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

This article described how I came up with the charter for the SRE team, which we bootstrapped right around then. The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. I recently wrote an article about how we manage incident response at Honeycomb , and I’d love for you to read that too. Last year, I wrote How We Define SRE Work.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Today’s article is about the role of a Principal Engineer as many people still have doubts who is this person and what is his/her responsibilities in a company. Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

In this article I would like to show you what I learned while building that Slack bot. You can find more information in the Verifying requests from Slack article. At this location there is only a limited number of parking spots, and we want to avoid colleagues arriving at the office with their car without an available spot to park.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. In Reality… I’m not advocating that you follow every step in this article in order and propose a DDD exemplar.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise. This Spotify unit helps the company create a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. What is a сross-functional team?

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

This article helps you challenge your automated testing and to improve upon it in a more continuous fashion. . 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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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

To do this effectively, we need a culture of confidence around the code that we take to production. In this article, I’ll do a deep dive on some of these processes and tools, how we use them and why they help us. Consistency : All our repositories share the same basic structure, conventions and tools. Automated tests.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Check out my presentations and articles. Perhaps the most important aspect of discovery is embedding it in your culture and making it a continuous activity for leaders and for makers. Unfortunately, making continuous design & discovery part of your engineering culture cannot be achieved in a single workshop.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

A Cosmos service This article will explain why we built Cosmos, how it works and share some of the things we have learned along the way. Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering. Sometimes, using a label that speaks directly to the business value of a type of work can do wonders to help both sides find a way to move forward. The post Anything But Tech Debt appeared first on Honeycomb.

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The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. It took them a long time to go from alchemy to engineering. The article said that software also started as an art, and has some scientific basis, but it will eventually follow the same path to engineering. Early on I moved away from the cowboys.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Open Source and a Culture of Sharing. Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking. Making this transition … proved highly challenging for our business colleagues, especially culturally.

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