Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. We’ll never lose sight of what it means to build a tool that, in turn, streamlines processes and enriches engineering cultures.

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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. Just as the ladder sets new expectations of engineers, the management track sets new expectations for managers, with material about managing the system rather than just managing the work.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps.

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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. That may be no longer true.

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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.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Dhevi joined Netflix in July 2020 and is one of many Data Engineers who have onboarded remotely during the pandemic. In this post, Dhevi talks about her passion for data engineering and taking on a new role during the pandemic. One great thing about working with data is the impact you can create as an engineer.

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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. What is a personal retrospective?

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth. . When I asked Honeycomb folks “What sort of SRE role is this going to be?”

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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.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Common patterns: what are the responsibilities of a Principal Engineer. He or she is one of the key faces of engineering and the company and enables awareness of the company while attracting talent and participating in tech conferences. Principal Engineer is in charge of driving engineering culture.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering. Debt is still a useful concept While tech debt is rarely a helpful label when making the argument to pay down debt, the notion of “debt” remains a useful one in software engineering.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It’s about seeing beyond the code and into the lived experience of the user, making engineering as much about human interaction as it is about technology. See how Pax8 transformed to an engineering culture of curiosity with observability 2.0. The post The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 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. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.

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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. In software, this can be likened to the parts of the system we do not fully understand or monitor.

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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.

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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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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise. Software engineer. For instance, one chapter can consist of software engineers or designers. Increased employee engagement.

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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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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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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

Examples include: Embedding with product-engineering teams to create strong relationships and asking the right questions at the right time Facilitating conversations about reliability and scale within teams, and making these a part of the organizational culture Having a silo-crossing perspective to engineering within the organization, and taking a (..)

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Honeycomb

MAY 29, 2024

That sort of culture, as Sidney Dekker has argued , is toxic. These are impractical and wasteful uses of scarce resources. Moreover, punitive measures can create distrust between CoPE members and their colleagues, leading to alienation and secrecy.

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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. We’re hiring across many departments (just so happens we have spots for new engineers, too)! The energy is infectious. appeared first on Honeycomb.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Software is in a crisis. This is nothing new. Complex distributed systems are perpetually in a state far from equilibrium, operating in what Richard Cook has called a “degraded mode.” However, there are some organizations that seem to have an easier time of it than others.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. Software engineers contribute to designing the products and features they are building. I hope you also enjoyed my highlights, but I would still recommend reading the whole story in the book.

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Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

Getting the right people working in the CoPE is crucial to success because these change agents must limber up the organization and promote the flexibility necessary to perform resilience.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. Like you need tools that respect that responsibility, that respect your time. I guess is what I would say. That’s great.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This practice, while small and often overlooked, can have a significant impact on the overall excellence of a software engineering project. 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.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 15, 2024

tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate 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.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Open Source and a Culture of Sharing. The rise of open source software in the 1990s has undoubtedly transformed IT. While vendor lock-in is still a very real issue, the availability of open source software has done a lot to liberate IT. Remember: an attacker only needs to find one vulnerability that escaped your attention.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.”

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