The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 13, 2023

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. The different teams were scattered all over the planet, so coordinating all of the efforts was vital. The QA team had its own separate repo, and more importantly, they had their own environment configurations for our code as well.

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Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

That graph should represent social relations which can be enriched with information about normal engineering practices that each person and their team perform, such as periodic sprint cycles, regular post-incident meetings, or widely adopted standards and tools. This initial group forms the basis of a social graph.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Your team’s testing practice should assess the entire application, observe the larger story of how it operates when functioning correctly, and raise alarms when deviations are found. Many teams don’t view security testing as part of their testing suite.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ourselves: to remind us what we’ve done, and to create an opportunity to reflect on how things have developed since. Our team(s): to give them a broader view of our work, to demonstrate openness about the highs and lows of being a software engineer, and to encourage a growth mindset. Who are personal retrospectives for?

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Netflix Tech

JULY 15, 2021

Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team. Kevin, what drew you to data engineering?

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. The centralized data model that had served us well when we were a small team became a liability.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

A DDD Exemplar is a project, ideally achievable within a quarter, that results in improvements in a domain(s) and improvements in how teams build products. It lays the foundations for other teams to copy and adapt. It’s a proof-of-concept for how teams build products. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 9, 2024

HackerEarth’s assessments can help you gain valuable insights into candidate strengths and weaknesses, helping you make data-driven hiring decisions and personalize onboarding experiences. Check with your team if you need advanced search functionalities, skills assessments, or employer branding tools, for instance.

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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. So, I guess I’m a bad expert on process.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This book is an excellent read and it covers small things that you can do to build trust and to become an authentic and true leader to your team at different stages of your leadership journey. Book advocates that by focusing on the small things and executing them well, leaders can create a lasting impact on their teams and organisations.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. He shared his experiences from when he led the SRE team at Netflix, and how thats influenced the way he’s helped the Datadog team put process around chaos engineering experiments. Go after the easy wins.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This proactive approach reflects an important shift from older reactive approaches to security, in which you deploy software and hope nothing bad happens. Better that someone on your team discovers that vulnerability first. Open Source and a Culture of Sharing. That’s an important statement.

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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.” Cross-team interactions felt fraught; focus was constantly shifting; nobody was ever sure what bar we were being measured against.

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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. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

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