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GitHub Universe 2024, what a blast!

Xebia

The booth Game we came up with was Buzz the Wire. This resulted already in us becoming the first GitHub-verified partner back in 2019, and from there, we went on a journey where we helped numerous customers migrate and adopt GitHub as their core platform for engineering.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Gamification effectively means applying gaming mechanisms to a non-game context (source). Let’s translate it to a game. Imagine playing a game on your phone where you have to solve puzzles to go to the next level. The example of the mobile game is also through within organizations. What can we learn from games?

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? Introducing things like stand-up comedy, indoor game tournaments, etc., a token of respect, a small payback. So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers? Entertainment break — Stand up comedy.

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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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Four short links: 18 March 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Inklewriter — open source interactive text adventure game creator. Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

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10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read

Dzone - DevOps

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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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

Here at Honeycomb, we’ve always focused more on the problems we help our customers solve rather than playing the meta game of posturing in startup-land—so these fundraising blog posts are usually the least fun to write (and read, probably). TL;DR—This is a fundraising post! Yes, even in this economy. But this one is a little different.