Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

Adjust work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Think of: Urban planners ’ roles around public consultation, transportation management, sanitation infrastructure, and sustainable growth.

Systems Review 75

Systems Review Sustainability Engineering Scalability 75

Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift. But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

Software Review 52

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. However, it frames and guides the form it should take to make it more effective, useful, and sustainable. — Fred Hebert (@mononcqc) August 5, 2020.

Technical Review 138

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Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

DevOps represents a change in IT culture. Leaders need to be culture builders by carrying the mission and strategy into the team and creating goals. Build the core DevOps team : The core DevOps team must accelerate the culture transformation and support the Agile squads in their adoption. The case for DevOps leadership.

DevOps 52

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Honeycomb

MAY 29, 2024

As our Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones says , production excellence is important for cloud-native software organizations because it ensures a safe, reliable, and sustainable system for an organization’s customers and employees. That sort of culture, as Sidney Dekker has argued , is toxic.

CTO Coach 64

CTO Coach Leadership Organization Recruiting 64

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.

Internet 154

Internet Engineering Architecture Network 154

InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 13, 2023

2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life.

Generative AI 105

Generative AI Energy Architecture System 105

Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

As such, the group needs access to independent funding and other guarantees that grant it sufficient power to do its work in order to sustain itself—in case certain factions try to impede it. Some parts of the organization may understand them as a blessing and others a curse. To build upon this analogy to safety departments, Provan et al.

Technical Advisors 95

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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. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Weak Development Team Continuous Delivery 91

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

DDD is not an excuse to prioritise modelling over delivery, but it is an excuse to challenge the over-focus on short-term at the expense of long-term sustainability. I’ve previously written about Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture , which shares some practical tips for getting started with design in general.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I think it’s important when you’re talking about chaos engineering to also talk about culture. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? In reality, I just think that approach is not sustainable. It’s like a nightmare.

Engineering 9

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Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

Building a suitable and sustainable platform is more than a technical challenge; it might also require a change in the way people work and sometimes new skills are needed. You need to be aware of the culture in the organizations you work for and realize that the tech can be used for good and bad.

Engineering 130

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. A small change with ripple effects.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. A small change with ripple effects.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

I had inadvertently shown the company that we could have these programs without planning for sustainable staffing, created hidden process debt, and suggested that we could take on major new efforts without making the tough tradeoffs that these efforts truly call for.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98