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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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?” Provide tools and assistance.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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