Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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Allstacks

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the summer of 2021, we published an article on preventing developer burnout and tech culture’s historical tendency to glamorize being “so busy.” Read more about the impact of Covid-19 on software development. Mental health is at the forefront of everyone’s radar, and Allstack is here for it.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It provides a platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the development of valuable resources for the InnerSource community. What is InnerSource?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Code review is a key step during the software development process — it’s when people check a program by viewing and reading parts of the source code. But despite its importance, not all developers are pleased with the way traditional code reviews work. Pulse aims to help in this process.”

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 21, 2022

An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Which makes sense of course, since two decades ago, building out the networking and compute capacity of the internet was one of the major engineering challenges of that period in the web’s history. They also got a taste of an exit without really getting the whole meal, if you will.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At its essence, a DevOps culture involves closer collaboration and a shared responsibility between development and operations for the products they create and maintain. The understanding that developers who build it, also run it, brings developers closer to the user, with a greater understanding of user requirements and needs.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. Plan: Growing skillsets and knowledge Just investing the time doesn’t necessarily mean our teams will develop the right skills.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 14, 2022

For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. By Lilac Mohr.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The article explores optimizing test execution, saving machine resources, and reducing feedback time to developers. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available. By Gregor Endler, Marco Achtziger.

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Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Being on the leading-edge of software development requires quality observability insights, and the company wanted a new partner that could support their engineering charter for continual improvement and growth. The challenge? We had this persistent feeling that we wouldn’t be able to scale that constant oversight as our company grew.”

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

At CircleCI, my team uses a short-lived branching model for software development. While this strategy goes against everything I once thought was the ‘right’ way to develop software, in this post, I’ll describe how seeing it in practice has taught me to embrace it. Any developer can deploy partially using canaries.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. And this helped us built one of the largest developer communities in the world, with over 2.5 million developers. And these potentials are the stepping stone to open innovation.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems. That’s an important statement.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. That’s a mistake.

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.

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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. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

Both titles aim to bridge the gap between development and operation teams, with a unified goal of enhancing the release cycle without any compromises. Both titles co-exist in the same space, and both are an essential part of the development team; so how are they different, and what does each one mean? Let’s check it out.

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. People centered culture People culture ‹-› Performance culture 4. Purpose driven Organizational development ‹-› Value creation Table 1. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

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Confluent

MAY 23, 2019

Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Developers can make suggestions and adopt a style of working that’s more open and fits their needs,” he says. “If

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Tribes are capped at 100 people to minimize “restrictive rules, bureaucracy, politics, extra layers of management, and other waste” Chapter : people of a single skill area inside one tribe, e.g. testers or developers who work with a certain technology. E.g. A developer reports to a dev manager; a tester to test manager, etc.

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Xebia

APRIL 16, 2025

The AWS Toolkit for VS Code solves this problem by letting you develop and visualize your workflows directly in your IDE. This makes the development process much more efficient and improves the Developer Experience. You can create, edit and test Step Functions visually, without the back-and-forth copying.

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gregor Hohpe describes this as riding the elevator.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gregor Hohpe describes this as riding the elevator.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When I joined Discover® Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. People: how Discover engineers grow through peer-to-peer teaching At Discover, continuous learning is ingrained in our culture.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. When developers write code as loosely-coupled modules — as it usually should be — the components rely on explicit contracts for how they interact. It is worth spending some time incorporating this type of testing into your software development process.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

While it caters to the majority, there are always going to be developers who need (or choose) to go ‘off-road’. This means that a central team builds and (mostly) maintains the Paved Road for the benefit of its developer clients. In turn, developers who choose the Paved Road agree to comply with its philosophy. Not so fast.

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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. The example would be a marketing team, an accounting team, a developers’ team, etc. Let’s briefly discuss the main differences among them.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2022

I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Test automation is one of the practices that helps teams gain confidence earlier in the development process. It reduces the cost of testing and supports keeping long-term, high-development velocities. This results in a steadily-growing set of tests becoming part of the development cycle. Execute Tests Earlier. Conclusion.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Engineering has come a long way since the days of delivering discrete, point-in-time products that were often packaged on a CD and shipped to customers. The days of physical media and long development cycles are long gone. This shift has not only revolutionized how software is developed, but has also redefined the engineer’s role.

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d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

All of these issues will eventually lead to inconsistent performance and reliability issues and an increase in security risks and development and maintenance costs. Empowering Both Developers and Operators When adopting Kubernetes and other cloud native services, it’s important to think about how they’ll impact the engineering culture.

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