Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

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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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

I’ve noted several ideas that might be characterized as “passive” in this blog post. It occurs when agents re-evaluate their circumstances and, determining that the current state of affairs is insufficient to achieve their goals, draw upon heretofore novel resources which change what they can affect.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. Capacity and Efficiency Which resources (clusters, tables, …) are unused or under-utilized and why?

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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. What Really Matters.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Tech Blog Encourage your developers to write posts on a tech blog. As a business, the economics of this type of culture should tell you everything.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. Moved the needle on the blog post. This feels good!

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. We’re trying to build something sustainable here, and the people who make up Honeycomb are more than just “resources.” It turns out that authoritarianism isn’t a great way to run a business.

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