TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Regardless of your startup’s stance on the topic, having a consistent compensation philosophy that you apply to your evolving workplace has a unicorn-sized influence on important growth metrics: attracting and keeping top talent, as well as creating a culture of trust and performance.

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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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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LinearB's free dashboard allows users to visualize DORA metrics from within the company’s software delivery management platform.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There is no agreed way to build and measure high performing engineering teams, let alone to track the success of software engineers. This article explores ways to support individuals and teams right from onboarding and identifies useful metrics which can help make performance factors visible and actionable.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 19, 2020

As IT professionals, you understand the benefits of establishing clear metrics to gain visibility into how your organization is driving value. The right metrics provide insights into what the organization needs to change and where it is winning. But many companies overlook positive behavioral metrics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 ” Samira and Astro co-launched Astro as Austin Software in 2018 in an effort to overcome these roadblocks to recruiting developer talent in Latin America, specifically countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

(previously known as FullSenders), claims that NGL acquired its trade secrets through “improper means” as a result of a breach of duties by the suit’s defendant, Raj Vir, an Instagram software engineer, who had worked on Sendit on the side. Among these business details was Sendit’s use of fake questions.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

This often requires a mindset and culture shift from viewing software quality defects as individual failures to seeing them as opportunities to improve as a collective team. In this post, we focus on the various costs of software quality and how those can be measured.

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OverOps

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Dave Hahn , Senior SRE Core Team at Netflix, gives us a tour of DevOps practices at Netflix, where culture is key, chaos is your friend, and trust is an absolute requirement. Cloud Native is About Culture, Not Containers. Can a DevOps Culture Help Avoid Burnout? Metrics, logging, monitoring, and reliability.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Observability starts by collecting system telemetry data, such as logs, metrics, and traces. To gain a more complete picture, observability tools collect data from various components of the software system: logs, metrics, and traces (typically considered the “three pillars of observability” but don’t get us started on that rant ).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

In his latest TechCrunch+ column, Jonathan Martinez says it’s time to “re-forecast, re-prioritize and refine” strategies to move key growth metrics like ARPU and LTV. Founders need to ask themselves what really matters to their business, and which benefits best align with their cultural values,” says Anitra St.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Modern software engineers rely on DevOps to grow. Startup companies that meticulously implement the DevOps culture tend to have a more collaborative and pleasant work environment. One key practice can address all those causes of startup failure and more: DevOps. Here’s what you need to know: Understanding DevOps.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gartner’s surveys and data from client inquiries confirm that developer productivity remains a top priority for software engineering leaders.” One big caveat of some productivity measurements is that some can lead to false positives, or cause engineers to game the system. “As

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As software engineers, our industry may be competitive, but we need to remove the stigma associated with failing. Let’s consider a hypothetical example: A software engineer submits a pull request for a new feature. It takes both time and the right culture. Create a blameless culture. What broke?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Communicate clearly and often about policies and their reasons and benefits, create a culture of feedback and collaboration, and be agile and willing to adapt policies as user needs evolve.” Foster a co-creation culture The last step is probably the most important and should be managed parallel to the other six steps.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Agile enables the software team and end users to “collectively learn to plan better, work better and adjust more quickly, and outcomes become far more predictable as the way the team works becomes more predictable,” Chowning says. “On Most technology projects fail because they lack concrete key performance indicators (KPIs) , Mahajan says. “I

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Platforms like HackerEarth allow recruiters to create customized coding tests for various roles, whether its for front-end developers, software engineers, or system architects. Stage 4: Behavioral Interviews Behavioral interviews focus on a candidates past experiences, motivation, and cultural fit within the organization.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2024

Challenge Phorest wanted a tool to help foster a culture of observability among the engineers at an affordable and predictable price. With their application stack hosted on AWS, Phorest delivers a premier software solution that empowers their salon and spa business customers to thrive.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Cultural alignment within an engineering organization is necessary, but not sufficient. Read more about this in my prior post.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Evaluation criteria To assess the quality of the results produced by generative AI, Verisk evaluated based on the following criteria: Accuracy Consistency Adherence to context Speed and cost To assess the generative AI results accuracy and consistency, Verisk designed human evaluation metrics with the help of in-house insurance domain experts.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Enter evidence-based hiring , a data-driven approach that focuses on measurable metrics, validated assessments, and analytics to identify the right talent. Evidence-based hiring reduces this risk by ensuring candidates are thoroughly vetted for both skills and cultural fit.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Now, in light of the severe talent crunch faced by the tech industry with every organization vying for the same candidates across job roles like software engineering, developing, data science, etc., Hiring fast might kill your workplace culture. Also, read: Through The Looking Glass: Hiring For ‘Cultural Fit’ In A Remote World.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 8, 2022

At Netflix, we don’t just think about productivity - we engineer it. I lead the Develop Domain along with my Delivery and Observability Domain peers, and together, we make up Productivity Engineering. There’s an entire team within Netflix dedicated to productivity.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 27, 2024

In software engineering, there is a direct correlation between team performance and building robust, stable applications. This requires carefully combining applications and metrics to provide complete awareness, accuracy, and control. It’s also vital to avoid focusing on irrelevant metrics or excessively tracking data.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is so much good work that OpenTelemetry has done in the software industry, specifically around the domain of observability, in the last five years. Unify logs, traces, and metrics under a completely vendor-neutral API? Bringing users and vendors together to define the future of telemetry?

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Another difference from SRE is that DevOps emerged in the first place as a culture and mindset that didn’t specify how exactly to implement its ideas.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 31, 2020

This shift requires a fundamental change in your software engineering practice. Particularly at a company that’s new to AI, part of an AI product manager’s job is helping the organization build the culture it needs to succeed with AI. These are fundamentally cultural problems.

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Honeycomb

JULY 8, 2024

“It became clear that we needed a better solution for telemetry,” said Simon Davy, Senior Research Software Engineer at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford. “We Additionally, access to machine logs was restricted due to the presence of sensitive data, further complicating the process.

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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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Honeycomb

JULY 2, 2019

Outages are a thing software engineering teams deal with fairly regularly, and for many, relief can come in the form of a blameless culture–but it’s high pressure and high stakes, nonetheless. Using language and translating those metrics isn’t as easy as you think. Thanks to O’Reilly for sharing.

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Daniel Bryant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Platform strategy, Team Topologies, IaC, SRE, metrics and more! The Syntasso team is often asked for platform engineering book recommendations at conferences, via social media, and in Slack DMs. We’ve pooled together our collective top five recommendations for this blog post.

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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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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Wavefront for Metrics. Millions of Logs and Limited View Metrics. When Richard Laroque joined the Outreach engineering team in 2015, they mostly relied on querying logs with Elasticsearch as a way to pinpoint issues in production. The team considered a metrics-based approach for discovering production issues. Cloudwatch.

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OverOps

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Dave Hahn , Senior SRE Core Team at Netflix, gives us a tour of DevOps practices at Netflix, where culture is key, chaos is your friend, and trust is an absolute requirement. Cloud Native is About Culture, Not Containers. Can a DevOps Culture Help Avoid Burnout? Metrics, logging, monitoring, and reliability.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As you will see, our “highly aligned, loosely coupled” culture played a key role in the success of this cross-functional project. Having a suite of tools that can provide summarized metrics for these streaming sessions is critical to the success of Netflix AV1 streaming.

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