O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 17, 2020

Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

Engineering Culture 56

Engineering Culture Open Source Software Engineering Games 56

Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Because of this, it’s especially rewarding for Honeycomb to be recognized recently for the work we do within our metaphorical walls, with Comparably naming us in over ten different categories , including “Best Company Outlook,” “Best Company for Diversity,” “Best Leadership Teams,” and “Best Company Culture.”

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

And it plans to add more than 1,080 new soft skills-related offerings this year, including live training courses, video courses, and books. “IT IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds. But most of us are mere mortals,” he says.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Training Coaching 203

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

principles of testing (popularized by the book Clean Code by Robert C Martin ). Tarlinder says a lot on testability in his book “ Developer Testing ” and provides good insights on what to look for. When writing tests, it is good to stick to the F.I.R.S.T These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast. Independent. Repeatable.

Software Review 130

Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 130

Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

” Recently, I read Kent Beck’s book “ Tidy First? The book thoroughly discusses the economics of tidying code. So if you’re trying to make a how-many decision (…) Break them down and think about them incrementally.” “, which I highly recommend.

Development 130

Development Software Development Software Analysis 130

Netflix Tech

JULY 15, 2021

The knowledge graph enabled us to better understand the trends of movies, TV shows, talent, and books. The company was intriguing to begin with, but I knew nothing of the talent, culture, or leadership’s vision. After interviewing, it became clear to me that this company culture was different than any I had experienced.

Data Engineering 79

Data Engineering Engineering Data Big Data 79

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. For example, the book equates short production throughput time to short development lead time.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Weak Development Team Continuous Delivery 91

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. Sergey: I think I would respond with sort of a catchy phrase from our Netflix culture deck.

Internet 154

Internet Engineering Architecture Network 154

LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

Our People (HR) team creates a Clubhouse ticket (project management software) that assigns tasks and due dates for everything ranging from granting the employee system access with IT to giving them branded swag to booking all their core meetings. So, by day one, they have three key people to talk to: Ops, a buddy, and their manager.

Systems Review 66

Systems Review Software Review Virtualization Meeting 66

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Technical Review B2C 98

Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

That’s why I took on the task to build a Slack bot that could facilitate viewing, cancelling, and booking spots in the garage. 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. I build the Slack Bot using Block Kit.

Lambda 130

Lambda AWS Authentication Construction 130

Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. His theories notably influenced the Wachowski siblings’ The Matrix series, bringing some of his ideas into mainstream awareness.

Software Review 59

Software Review Software Systems Review Software Development 59

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. As a business, the economics of this type of culture should tell you everything. There is a bigger pool of candidates?

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering How To Open Source Engineering 40

Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me. On top of that, every Netlifolk has an education budget per year to spend on books, courses and webinars to further their professional development.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 52

Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Scott Page has famously demonstrated in books like The Diversity Bonus that teams with diverse experiences and “lower” individual aptitude perform better than homogenous ones where each individual is “better.” Management must create buffers which support the Center of Production Excellence if it deems these activities necessary.

Technical Advisors 95

Technical Advisors Groups Organization Software 95

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

There’s a lot to say about refactoring, with many good books written on the topic. It usually involves taking hard-to-maintain, messy, or confusing code, and updating it to improve its readability and maintainability without changing its user-facing functionality.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that. Interested in learning more?

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Fractional CTO Engineering Performance Engineering Culture 45

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

It’s the Share Pie story in chapter 8 of Eric Evans’ DDD book. I hope you also enjoyed my highlights, but I would still recommend reading the whole story in the book. Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. This treasure has been hiding in plain sight all along.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

Thankfully, the book lays out guidelines about how to produce and accrue the greatest bonuses in various types of problems, like predicting or innovating. Each of these added to a group provides a bonus because it changes how the group can engage with the problem space, and they can also be combined to form synthetic methods of working.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Recruiting Groups Meeting 52

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

Our guests today are two superbly experienced front end engineers, and with several books, and many, many talks between them. We have Rebecca Murphey, senior technical lead at Indeed.com, and Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Century. A company called Fresh Books. Thank you both so much for joining us today. Worked there.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I think it’s important when you’re talking about chaos engineering to also talk about culture. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? If I have to wake up and run a run book, we’re already f *d.

Engineering 9

Engineering Weak Development Team Development Team Review Testing 9

LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think Italian bus drivers used to do it and they would run exactly by the book and everything would take five times longer. There’s something called a work to rule strike, which I read about a couple of years ago and it’s hilarious. Ramin: They’re like, no, no, we’re doing exactly what you told us to do and it sucks.

Weak Development Team 10

Weak Development Team DevOps Testing Agile 10

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This book is an excellent read and it covers small things that you can do to build trust and to become an authentic and true leader to your team at different stages of your leadership journey. Book advocates that by focusing on the small things and executing them well, leaders can create a lasting impact on their teams and organisations.

Engineering 59

Engineering Software Review Technical Review Weak Development Team 59

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. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Another big effort from the DevRel team is Observability Engineering (a.k.a.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

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. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Another big effort from the DevRel team is Observability Engineering (a.k.a.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

If you’re interested in exec team dynamics and the craft of strategy, these three books have been particularly formative for our exec team: The Advantage : Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard P.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98