A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity
DevOps.com
MAY 8, 2023
Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.
What Is DevOps Culture?
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. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.
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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?
OverOps
JULY 11, 2018
DevOps or SRE? DevOps and SRE seem like two sides of the same coin. Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You? The Differences Between DevOps and SREs. link] pic.twitter.com/616uW4OQJu.
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How do you know DevOps is working?
CloudGeometry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
In the face of this sudden acceleration of SaaS-ification, DevOps need to do more to accelerate the transition. It’s increasingly impossible to imagine a SaaS business without a firm commitment to DevOps thinking. DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops!
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Article: How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Companies are now looking to grow and more effectively manage DevOps with platform engineering and site reliability engineering roles.
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How CloudZero Built an Engineering Culture of Cost Autonomy
CloudZero
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
As a cloud cost intelligence company, we often like to say “every line of code is a buying decision”. If you’re running on AWS or one of the other big cloud providers, you know that a simple decision about how to architect an application can have a significant impact on your future cost of goods sold (COGS).
An update on CircleCI's reliability
CircleCI
APRIL 13, 2022
We fully embrace blameless engineering culture and the DevOps principle of “you build it, you run it,” but the distributed nature of both our system and our teams has made that connection, communication, and resolution difficult.
Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck
Capgemini
AUGUST 27, 2020
Within IT, DevOps answers the global call for organizational transformation. The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. However, shifting to DevOps is only possible when there are capable and transformative leaders at the helm. How do we bring this to life?
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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team
Xebia
APRIL 20, 2022
In a few years, he has grown to become a respected source of information for many people on DevOps and GitHub. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace this.
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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You
Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another. Versus a pipeline that requires waiting for the DevOps team to deploy for them. Database, Business Logic, UI).
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DevOps
The Programmer's Paradox
APRIL 13, 2023
Not sure what happened, but my initial understanding of the role of DevOps comes from my experiences in the early 90s. I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. We were able to focus on the engineering, while they took care of the operational issues. Very cutting-edge at the time.
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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
“This way, they follow what their colleagues in other departments are already doing by measuring performance while not compromising their engineering culture.”
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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
LaunchDarkly
MARCH 17, 2020
These companies would cherry-pick statistics from reports such as the Accelerate: State of DevOps Report. Let’s go back to the stats from the Accelerate: State of DevOps Report. If moving slowly and methodically wasn’t working, doing more had to be the key to success. It takes longer to resolve incidents. Yes, elite teams ship faster.
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Technical Health Isn’t Optional
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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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations
Xebia
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Perhaps your focus is on breaking down traditional boundaries through DevOps practices. These packages are available through platforms like Azure DevOps Artifacts or GitHub Packages. Alternatively, are you fostering a collaboration mindset, emphasizing knowledge sharing and collaboration?
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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps
LaunchDarkly
JANUARY 14, 2020
Well, so what really has struck me about sort of the modern reality of DevOps and SRE life has been, I’ve gotten to know more of, has been this sort of deep shared responsibility for something that you didn’t make, that you can’t necessarily fix. Larry: That’s an interesting question.
Surviving SVB's Collapse and Outsmarting Uber with Kyte's Head of Product and Engineering, Nick Cobb
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 5, 2023
Of course, it hasn't been easy going for engineering leaders either. That's why Nick, the VP of Engineering and Head of Product at Kyte, sat down with us to discuss how to build an engineering culture with a bias toward action, why he deleted his team's staging environment, and what it takes to outmaneuver his former employer, Uber.
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Learn how to build a resilient software team
CircleCI
JANUARY 22, 2021
A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix, which is woven into everything we do.
10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read
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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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability
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. That may sound like a stretch, but smaller deploys are easier to manage than large ones, and this is definitely a place where observability plays an important role.
The Spotify Model of Scaling - Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You
Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity - build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another. Versus a pipeline that requires waiting for the DevOps team to deploy for them. Database, Business Logic, UI).
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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization
Datavail
APRIL 6, 2022
You can also take this opportunity to implement new methodologies such as DevOps and agile that help make your IT teams more productive and efficient. Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well.
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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2022
Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Am I a Monster?
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP
Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
While my engineering experience is deepest in frontend technologies, I am very grateful to have built early experience in a number of shops that did pair programming and brought a DevOps mindset to their work.
How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes.
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Grown-Up Lean
LeanEssays
JULY 14, 2019
In chapter 3 (Agility and Leanness) he introduces DevOps, a set of technical practices based on cross-functional teams and heavy automation that effectively does away with the tradeoff between speed and control – you can have both. They create an engaging engineering culture. They obsess over customers. This is lean.
Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?
Honeycomb
AUGUST 2, 2022
My first DevOps role was at a startup consulting for other startups. My last company, a data analytics startup, was probably the biggest I’ve worked at (~500 people) where I split my time between “traditional DevOps” (i.e. I’ve spent most of my time at startups or smaller companies. I then moved on (burned out) to internal roles.
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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC
LaunchDarkly
OCTOBER 26, 2018
At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.
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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change
Xebia
APRIL 21, 2022
Managers within enterprise organizations are a success factor for enterprise change (sources). However, they do find themselves on a challenging playing field. Part of this playing field is that they are both managing people while at the same time being managed themselves.
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Transforming Financial Services with Modern Observability: Moov’s Story
Honeycomb
MARCH 18, 2024
“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that.
Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples
Altexsoft
MARCH 3, 2023
According to the DevOps practice, you have to avoid manual work as much as possible. You should use DevOps tools that will allow the specialists to get rid of time-consuming mundane tasks and concentrate on more important activities that are not automated and need intervention. Get to know more about the Spotify engineering culture.
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How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture
DevOps.com
JULY 2, 2019
The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com. If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […].
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Article: InfoQ Software Trends Report: Major Trends in 2022 and What to Watch for in 2023
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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Article: Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization
InfoQ Culture Methods
AUGUST 23, 2022
Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently.
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Tips for Onboarding New Hires Remotely
LaunchDarkly
MARCH 26, 2020
I’m no stranger to remote work. I’ve been onboarded remotely and have onboarded remote employees before. But I have to say I’ve never been a part of onboarding someone fully remote, with my onboarding partners-in-crime also being remote, in the midst of a pandemic.
The Rise of the Front-End Developer
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.
Chaos Engineering at Datadog
LaunchDarkly
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? Audience: Hi, I actually listened to your previous talk about the Python script, to terminate using Lambda. I think in the headquarter, the New York Times. I know that you mentioned that there are game days.
Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start
Xebia
MARCH 28, 2024
Are you starting on your platform engineering journey? Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Are you looking at how to create a successful platform with lasting value?
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What Intrinsic motivation drives your colleagues with Moving Motivators
Xebia
APRIL 17, 2025
What intrinsic motivation drivers are amongst your coworkers? People are the most critical part of an organization, and managers must do all they can to keep them active, creative, and motivated. The management 3.0 practice of talking about your Moving Motivators clarifies what motivates you and team members.
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