InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast. 2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch in 2023.

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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.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Companies are now looking to grow and more effectively manage DevOps with platform engineering and site reliability engineering roles.

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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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Allstacks

JANUARY 20, 2022

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

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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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Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

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. Asking for Xpirit-feedback during a dry-run is also one of the things I try to motivate new colleagues for. magazine and was persistent.

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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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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. That’s an important statement.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Promoting InnerSource cultivates a culture of openness and transparency, resonating throughout the organization and enhancing company culture and employee morale. Summary This article explores InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations.

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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. Putting the pieces together needs collaboration to create a shared understanding of what the purpose of the domain is. Because of that, I decided to write about it and explain it more deeply.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

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. They are a fundamental piece in our engineering culture, since they give us the confidence we need to ship to production often with a lower risk of introducing regressions. Project templates. 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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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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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Whether you are a team lead, product manager, or a chief product officer , this article will give you the insights you need to leverage the power of cross-cultural collaboration in your company. Get to know more about the Spotify engineering culture. What is a сross-functional team?

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

In the Harvard Business Review article “Building the AI-Powered Organization”, [16] Tim Fountaine, Brian McCarthy, and Tamim Saleh contend that a successful move to digital involves aligning a company’s culture, structure, and ways of working. They create an engaging engineering culture. They obsess over customers.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Theres more details here than I can explain today, but you can use the QR code to find a detailed article, including the documentation we use for the skills. This is a big cultural shift!

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Explore the transformative power of responsible AI across industries, emphasizing security, MLOps, and compliance.

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