Xebia

APRIL 16, 2025

For example, a GET request can trigger a GetItem operation, while POST executes a PutItem on your DynamoDB table. Adriaan showed several examples where replacing a transformation Lambda with a JSONata expression not only simplified the workflow but also significantly improved execution speed by eliminating the cold start penalty.

AWS 130

AWS Lambda Serverless Architecture 130

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.

Open Source 110

Open Source Engineering Culture Weak Development Team Fractional CTO 110

Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. The last example here could be value creation, which needs to be balanced by organizational development. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment.

Agile 130

Agile Performance Culture Guidelines 130

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? For example, an engineer who buckled down free food and did not win may go home. a token of respect, a small payback. So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers?

Open Source 157

Open Source Culture Engineering Culture Innovation 157

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, when there is little usage at night, problems might go undetected. To achieve this you could, for example, play a recorded flow through the 5 most important User Journeys on a regular interval or you could insert some JavaScript (client-side code) to measure where users drop off or experience problems. Conclusion.

Metrics 130

Metrics Case Study Testing Study 130

Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

By implementing gamification, managers can extrinsically motivate employees (for example, with point/reward systems) without touching the hard controls within an organization. But gamification can also intrinsically motivate people, for example, the urge to find out what’s coming next.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Games Social Systems Review 130

Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

For example on the technical side, in the matter of a few years, we have gone from technology using QPSK modulation on fixed grid 50ghz spaced ROADM style networks to modulation using gigabaud symbol rates based on reach vs. bit rate used on a flexible grid within CDC style networks. What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo?

Engineering 98

Engineering Network Engineering Culture Culture 98

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Delivery pipelines and source code management systems help—for example, you can gate pull requests on a failing test. For example, if regression tends to happen around the same functionality or component, it might be worth investing more in that area when it comes to test coverage. Increase Coverage. Improve Testability.

Software Review 130

Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 130

Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Zendesk’s global offices are a great example. The company values transparency, especially on the engineering side, so that an engineer in Copenhagen can understand and leverage work happening in San Francisco. Get new ideas to customers faster. Opening up a project invites more ideas.

Organization 118

Organization Software Review Open Source Part-Time VPE 118

CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Training Coaching 203

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

What is an example of a Paved Road? Figure 1: An example Paved Road workflow. For a concrete example of the Paved Road, as implemented at Ahold Delhaize, read Reinier Timmer’s blog post ‘ A Paved Road for CI/CD using GitHub Actions ’. Let us say you have several teams developing microservices that run on Kubernetes.

Compliance 130

Compliance Microservices Continuous Delivery Testing 130

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. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

Culture 134

Culture Engineering Performance Energy 134

James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

Software Engineering 75

Software Engineering Engineering Technical Advisors Software 75

InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 21, 2022

I talk through some of the experiences myself and peers have had at Netflix, identifying some key learnings and examples we have gained over the years. 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. By Phillipa Avery.

Development 104

Development Examples How To Company 104

CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Structure for personal retrospectives and examples. For example, if you have a production engineering background you might prefer a simple “incident review” format: what went well? For example: “here’s what I need more support with,” or “this is great, let’s do more!”. What will we change?

Engineering 104

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Systems Review 104

Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Creating your Handler using an AWS Lambda Function In this example I am going to use a Node.js For our simple example this isn’t much of a problem. For example, you can update the values of the counter buttons, based on the payload value. In the example below an updated layout is POST-ed to the response URL.

Lambda 130

Lambda AWS Authentication Construction 130

Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, a video encoding service is built of components that are scale-agnostic: API, workflow, and functions. For example, the video service mentioned above is just one of many used to create streams that can be played on devices. On the other hand, logic is separated between application and platform.

Serverless 94

Serverless Microservices Weak Development Team Media 94

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Gitlab is my go-to place if I want to create and share a repo, setup CICD and create some examples for my Cypress adventures. So in my example, then there is a variable present with the key ‘multi-project-pipeline’ it will be added to the pipeline. Note to self: creating a blog about why I love Gitlab so much.

Testing 130

Testing Load Balancer Strategy Examples 130

Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In modern software principles we often hear the world simple, keep it simple stupid ( KISS ) for example, but what does “ simple” really mean? A great example of this is the overuse of micro-service architecture. Introduction. A simply managed solution encompasses more than just code or infrastructure.

Minimum Viable Product 130

Minimum Viable Product Groups Software Architecture 130

d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

For example, teams will be building one stack on cloud provider “A,” a different stack on cloud provider “B,” and a third stack at the edge or in a data center. 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.

Organization 72

Organization Government eBook Engineering Culture 72

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There’s a hidden column where I keep examples of work done, but you can see that there’s a lot of variation from month to month. Some of that is my on-boarding, some is reactive work (we had large spates of incidents in some months ), and some of it is a deeper focus on projects when the pace allows (or demands) it.

Software Review 133

Software Review Systems Review Engineering Culture 133

Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This small example illustrates how a postmodernist approach humanizes employees. If someone is not participating, we need to have a conversation with them to know if it’s a misunderstanding, fear, they are simply too busy, or something else. By understanding the cause of their behavior, together you can find solutions that lead to progress.

Groups 130

Groups Change Management Systems Review Authentication 130

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. The example I see most often is complex manual processes ( Operational Complexity ) involving multiple people, excel spreadsheets, and a variety of tools. It’s also possible to exchange complexity.

Weak Development Team 97

Weak Development Team Software Architecture Engineering 97

Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Open-source applications often serve as alternatives to well known applications, for example Photoshop and The Gimp. Applications Like infrastructure and open-source packages, application developers can also adopt an open-source approach. Some companies even choose to open-source the tools they use, making them accessible to all.

Open Source 162

Open Source Software Review Software Development Organization 162

Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

There are several examples of organizations gathering lots of data to get an idea of how such a system works, like Google’s “ Project Aristotle.” Should adapting to change itself be a part of our model for developer productivity? ” And we can get worthwhile insights from research like that.

Development 130

Development Software Development Software Analysis 130

CircleCI

MARCH 11, 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. Remove blockers.

Software Review 59

Software Review Engineering Virtualization Engineering Culture 59

Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Beyond writing code, he or she leads by example and take care of the details. Principal Engineer creates brand awareness. He or she is one of the key faces of engineering and the company and enables awareness of the company while attracting talent and participating in tech conferences.

Engineering 32

Engineering Part-Time VPE Software Engineering Engineering Culture 32

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, MEDDIC —or the variant I’m more familiar with, MEDDPICC. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% SLO isn’t important and we’re ok with reducing the target to, for example, 99.5%? of requests to our application should be handled within one second and without errors.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

For example, refreshing your.NET applications makes it much easier to adopt modern IT best practices such as cloud computing and microservices. For example, by how much is the modernization project expected to reduce your IT costs? Establishing an IT culture.

Azure 52

Azure Metrics Test-Driven Development Applications 52

CircleCI

APRIL 12, 2022

Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization. This kind of culture includes continuous integration, continuous deployment and delivery, and test-driven development. For our example, we can declare our initial workflow cleanly: version: 2.1

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Cloud Data Center Test-Driven Development 52

Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

services: the Netlify CLI , the build system and the serverless function bundler are just a few examples. They are a fundamental piece in our engineering culture, since they give us the confidence we need to ship to production often with a lower risk of introducing regressions. All flavors of it. Automated tests.

Software Review 69

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Testing 69

Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

Could we come up with examples to anchor that work? For example, we used to have a full third of the charter dedicated to “ provide tools and assistance, ” a category I felt represented typical SRE work around automation and eliminating toil. Discussions around that don’t always feel productive.

Systems Review 75

Systems Review Sustainability Engineering Scalability 75

LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

For example, at an Intro to Quantum Computing lesson people were honest about being lost. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. At GHC, I was refreshed by the intellectual honesty on display when people struggled with a new topic.

Hardware 67

Hardware Engineering Software Engineering Culture 67

James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Each employee was expected to take ownership of their progression by providing examples of their skills. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far.

Software Engineering 63

Software Engineering Technical Advisors Engineering Software 63

Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

As an example, I was interested in hosting a session on ‘Safer C programming’, but there wasn’t enough general interest to have a session. This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. Even if the session(s) are not accepted into the schedule (e.g.,

Report 52

Report Conference Engineering Culture Programming 52

Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

Teams should be organized around seven key roles: the DevOps evangelist, change and deployment manager, automation architect, pipeline architect, quality assurance professional, security engineer, cultural change lead. A DevOps transformation is only technical on the surface: the success lies within the people.

DevOps 52

DevOps Disaster Recovery Coaching Quality Assurance 52

Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

For example, “at what point does value exchange from the customer to the business occur” or more specifically “when is a payment made by the customer or a commitment to pay?”. For example: 3 Month Subscription Purchased. In this example, a seller signs up when they receive inquiries during the free trial period.

Software Review 52

Software Review Architecture Systems Review Technical Review 52