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. They often happen after the team showcases the work done during the sprint reviews or demos. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […].

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. We learn things from concepts and processes to languages and tools.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

When you think of software testing, what comes up first? Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. Both functional and non-functional testing are crucial components of a comprehensive software testing process , building extra confidence at each application layer.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Definition of Done – a team needs to agree that executing these tests is part of delivering changes and when changing code, new tests should be added. principles of testing (popularized by the book Clean Code by Robert C Martin ). From a process perspective, you should aim to ensure they are executed before the code is merged.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Even if you’ve never heard the term “innersource” to describe how teams build their software, you’ll probably still recognize some of the principles behind it. They’re powering code at the world’s most influential companies, and they might even be important practices on your team. Innersource isn’t a novel concept.

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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. JVM State: Threads, environment variables.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Code test. <?php However, context matters here. php class Test {.

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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. . Think of: Well, this one is pretty natural to the software world. Provide tools and assistance.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

The rollercoaster of 2020 highlighted the competitive advantage that well-oiled software delivery teams provide. The minute COVID-19 hit and everyone had to become not just remote-first, but remote-only, many engineering teams were forced to reckon with the number of manual processes they had in place. Think of Amazon’s Two Pizza Rule.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I’ve got a ton of personal reasons for joining Honeycomb that may not be worth being all public about, but after thinking for a while, I realized that many of the things I personally found interesting could point towards attitudes that result in better software elsewhere. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation.

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

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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 the context of software development, particularly with observability 1.0’s In software, bugs and unforeseen issues represent this remainder.

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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? What went badly?

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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. Take time to review the existing work and refactor properly if needed. Excellence. Productivity.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. Deploying observable code is simply less stressful/risky because teams will know quickly if there are any issues.

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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

These are built on three key principles: Automation : By automating recurring tasks whenever possible, we reduce the margin for human error and free up our engineers to focus on the right things. To do this effectively, we need a culture of confidence around the code that we take to production.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs , along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to.

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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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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Whether you’re trying to increase productivity or release better-quality code, the biggest piece of advice is to lead with empathy. . Fostering a healthy engineering culture.

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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. For me, it’s the emphasis on the social aspects of engineering, despite this being a very engineering and product-driven company. At Honeycomb?

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Running untrusted code in-process and ensuring it doesn’t spend too long executing and doesn’t block the whole process. As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone. Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me.

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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. This is why we highly encourage all teams to instrument their code to emit telemetry data. .

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

As a secondary objective, SREs at Honeycomb may write incident reviews, blog posts, and participate in webinars and conference talks. Think of: Urban planners ’ roles around public consultation, transportation management, sanitation infrastructure, and sustainable growth.

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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. It takes a village. This is all our normal process.

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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. Here, we will focus on software development so the roles will be chosen correspondingly. Software engineer.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying).

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” business, software, teams), it’s discovery structure. Q: What if the high-level structure is wrong?

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying).

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Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

Therefore, a group review and commitment to follow through on the charter is paramount. CoPE members can’t do their work if they don’t have the material, substantive resources necessary to make change. Each member and the CoPE’s immediate ‘upstream’ supporters have to reach some clarity in order to coordinate.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It can be network latency, network flapping, buggy software. I think it’s important when you’re talking about chaos engineering to also talk about culture. There’s just a lot of lack of diligence, is what I’d call it, in our services. It’s not good software. Things break. Corey: Yeah.

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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. I did a bunch of stuff at different code paths.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Look for software with features like skills assessments, robust candidate profiles, and integrations that allow for background checks. Evaluate software features: Candidate sourcing and management: Does it allow you to tap into diverse talent pools and manage candidate relationships effectively?

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

What is engineering excellence? Engineering excellence, in the context of software development, is the relentless pursuit of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in every aspect of our work. It's not just about writing code that works; it's about crafting solutions that are elegant, maintainable, and scalable.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

The price of cloud computing has risen due to the combination of a growing demand and more expensive hardware: Disruption of the supply chain: shortages of chips (GPU, CPU), back orders, broken stocks. Those workarounds add some boilerplate to our code. Data Engineer burnouts. Code available at 47 Degrees Open Source.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. The Nature of Software “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s May 27, 1997. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task.

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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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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

I was always able to find something to squeeze in between meetings or at the end of the day: convert a file to typescript, look at a dashboard, read a document, refactor a test, do a code review, check in with a teammate, answer a question in slack, etc.

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