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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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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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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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. There’s also a mentoring and coaching program in place.

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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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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. Pair programming, mob programming, group work … you name it. No individual work. Two people at least.

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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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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Different programming, domain, and business languages add to our cognitive complexity. When choosing what programming language or technology to use for the solution, it’s easy to get pulled into using the latest trends. Rather have more than one solution in this instance and keep each one confined to its original purpose.

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Netflix Tech

JULY 15, 2021

The company was intriguing to begin with, but I knew nothing of the talent, culture, or leadership’s vision. I had been a happy subscriber of Netflix’s DVD-rental program (no late fees!) After interviewing, it became clear to me that this company culture was different than any I had experienced. Data Engineers of Netflix?

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

But Armandpour insists on bringing all of PagerDuty’s new hires (whether they’re remote or not) to one of the main hubs in Toronto or San Francisco for an onboarding program. They’ll go through a two-and-a-half-day general onboarding program around PagerDuty, what we’re all about, and what our philosophies are,” he says.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

What was the first programming language you, you ever recorded in and you still use that? And for the first few months, I was just doing things like discussing different bits and pieces about programming and all I had was a paper to write different things on. Uh, so yeah for me the first programming language is Pascal.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix, which is woven into everything we do.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Thoughts from watching Railway Programming: Maybe use cases are not complete unless they specify error handling? cf “Railway Oriented Programming”, [link]. If you feel your retrospective shines a light on difficulties other engineers might have, share it more widely in your organization.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

We are still in mid-journey but we can share a few highlights of what we have learned so far: The Netflix culture played a key role The Netflix engineering culture famously relies on personal judgement rather than top-down control. We couldn’t have done that in a top-down engineering environment.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Software Engineer Software Engineers contribute to the work of their team without explicit guidance. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Drive toward alignment.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

As an example, I was interested in hosting a session on ‘Safer C programming’, but there wasn’t enough general interest to have a session. This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. Even if the session(s) are not accepted into the schedule (e.g.,

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Independent” is an especially common pitfall – it is very tempting to have tests depend on program state, its environment or on other tests. These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast. Independent. Repeatable. Self-validating. In the long run, this will result in tests that are hard to maintain and understand. 5 ways to improve.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. Womack, Daniel T.

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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.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

Traditionally, we do our first week “on-site” in our Oakland headquarters, which allows the new hire to feel out the culture of the company, meet colleagues, have water cooler chats, and my personal favorite, enjoy 1:1 walks along Lake Merritt. So, by day one, they have three key people to talk to: Ops, a buddy, and their manager.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

There’s also a strong debugging culture. There’s also a wonderful culture of documenting everything in living documents, so it’s easier to find things if I have questions. E : Programming in an overly-defensive manner is probably the big one! See our open positions, learn more about our culture, and apply today.

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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. especially programming languages. As a business, the economics of this type of culture should tell you everything. Don’t Hire for Specific Skills?—?Hire

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

You can also use other programming languages or hosting environments, as long as you have a public HTTP endpoint that can be reached by Slack. Slack API reaching out to AWS Lambda. Creating your Handler using an AWS Lambda Function In this example I am going to use a Node.js AWS Lambda function to host the handler.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

This can span from: Creating on-call rotations and associated supporting materials, like handover communication methods Running an ops-focused Office Hours Building out a Learning from Incidents program The increasing number of irreducible dimensions within software systems and the changing relations between them requires contributors to adopt an attitude (..)

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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.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 26, 2022

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. You see, Extreme Programming is too. 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.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

For me, the path to front end engineering began with, I don’t know, just went to college, studied computer science. I just wanted to make video games, which I think is how a lot of people get into programming early in their careers. “I want to make video games.” ” My first jobs were writing C in assembly.

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2023

These were then combined with the memory to store the program and its running values. This was where my programming skills came into play. At this point I could write (almost) any program in the assembly language. The penultimate section was where I took all the hardware I had created and assembled it into a working computer.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The true power of these small actions lies not just in the immediate time saved, but in the cumulative effect they have on the organization's engineering culture. This cultural shift can lead to innovations, improved product quality, and ultimately, better outcomes for the business and its customers.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

For example, right as I was transitioning into this role, I did inhumane things with my own schedule to quickly build out our SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance programs at the request of our go-to-market leaders.

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