Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At its essence, a DevOps culture involves closer collaboration and a shared responsibility between development and operations for the products they create and maintain. The understanding that developers who build it, also run it, brings developers closer to the user, with a greater understanding of user requirements and needs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Like people needing to take a driver’s test in order to get a license, Sloyan calls the company’s technical assessment technology a “flight simulator for developers,” that gives candidates a simulated evaluation of their skills and comes back with a score and highlighted strengths.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Code review is a key step during the software development process — it’s when people check a program by viewing and reading parts of the source code. But despite its importance, not all developers are pleased with the way traditional code reviews work. Pulse aims to help in this process.”

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It provides a platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the development of valuable resources for the InnerSource community. What is InnerSource?

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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.” Read more about the impact of Covid-19 on software development. Mental health is at the forefront of everyone’s radar, and Allstack is here for it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. They also got a taste of an exit without really getting the whole meal, if you will.

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. Plan: Growing skillsets and knowledge Just investing the time doesn’t necessarily mean our teams will develop the right skills.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 14, 2022

For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. By Lilac Mohr.

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Agile practitioners often refer to the four quadrants that make up the culture of autonomy and alignment. Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. People centered culture People culture ‹-› Performance culture 4.

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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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. And this helped us built one of the largest developer communities in the world, with over 2.5 million developers.

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

At CircleCI, my team uses a short-lived branching model for software development. While this strategy goes against everything I once thought was the ‘right’ way to develop software, in this post, I’ll describe how seeing it in practice has taught me to embrace it. Any developer can deploy partially using canaries.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 21, 2022

An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Culture will eat any structure. Tribes are capped at 100 people to minimize “restrictive rules, bureaucracy, politics, extra layers of management, and other waste” Chapter : people of a single skill area inside one tribe, e.g. testers or developers who work with a certain technology. Guild : a larger community of interest.

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Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Being on the leading-edge of software development requires quality observability insights, and the company wanted a new partner that could support their engineering charter for continual improvement and growth. The challenge? We had this persistent feeling that we wouldn’t be able to scale that constant oversight as our company grew.”

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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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Confluent

MAY 23, 2019

Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.

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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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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. That’s a mistake.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

Ever since Mark Zuckerburg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling. *Originally published on DevOps.com. The race was on to release more, ship faster, never stop.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Combat hero culture and fix structural issues.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In a first for the Dev Interrupted podcast , I hosted this episode live in front of a virtual audience during the INTERACT engineering leadership conference. Her lessons on team management, building company culture, hiring and mentorship are not to be missed!

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When I joined Discover® Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. We came together as one team across the organization to create a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and improvement.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 3, 2022

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

Both titles aim to bridge the gap between development and operation teams, with a unified goal of enhancing the release cycle without any compromises. Both titles co-exist in the same space, and both are an essential part of the development team; so how are they different, and what does each one mean? Let’s check it out.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Developers can make suggestions and adopt a style of working that’s more open and fits their needs,” he says. “If

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gregor Hohpe describes this as riding the elevator.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

While it caters to the majority, there are always going to be developers who need (or choose) to go ‘off-road’. This means that a central team builds and (mostly) maintains the Paved Road for the benefit of its developer clients. In turn, developers who choose the Paved Road agree to comply with its philosophy. Not so fast.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gregor Hohpe describes this as riding the elevator.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. By Ben Linders, Joy Ebertz, Pablo Fredrikson, Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2022

I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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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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