James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? Imagine were the best product engineering org in the world.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ourselves: to remind us what we’ve done, and to create an opportunity to reflect on how things have developed since. Our team(s): to give them a broader view of our work, to demonstrate openness about the highs and lows of being a software engineer, and to encourage a growth mindset. Who are personal retrospectives for?

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. Of course, that’s always been the case.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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Netflix Tech

JULY 15, 2021

Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team. Kevin, what drew you to data engineering?

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. He shared his experiences from when he led the SRE team at Netflix, and how thats influenced the way he’s helped the Datadog team put process around chaos engineering experiments. Go after the easy wins.

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