CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

I have the good fortune of not only leading a developer-first company focused on delivering value to engineers, but also seeing how thousands of the world’s best teams move their code from idea to delivery. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.

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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. What we have discovered in implementing emerging technology at U.S. Banking on technology and people The largest technology investment for U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.

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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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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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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” SREs doesn’t talk about how many silos are in the company, but more about how to get everyone to discuss. 2 Accept Failure as Normal. Sign up now. Final Thoughts.

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Nor is it as top-down as the Spotify illustration suggests—where leadership sets the goal and others figure out how to achieve it. Generally, people think it is a good idea to create an environment with high alignment and high autonomy.

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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 ? So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers? by Anagaha, Software Engineer from Suki). a token of respect, a small payback.

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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? It’s now available on-demand. .

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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.” How do you manage difficult conversations between people? Core leadership skills is one.”

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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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Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo? What is unique about your culture? Our engineering culture is really a team atmosphere. We don’t have engineers that only install shelves, or only worry about space and power, or only worry about a small network inside of a couple of metro markets.

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Xebia

APRIL 16, 2025

The session provided practical insights on how to optimize workflow orchestration with Step Functions. Yesterday I attended the AWS Summit 2025 in Amsterdam where I joined a session about AWS Step Functions hosted by Adriaan de Jonge, a former Xebia colleague.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My ten year old began to demonstrate how to deploy an Operational Database in AWS, showcasing how auto-scaling worked and how to set up replication. As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity.

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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. We welcome community engagement in crafting the standards and use the DTA platform to train all Discover engineers on how to implement them in their work.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. The best thing is, this type of culture comes almost for free when you treat developers extremely well (as discussed previously). You can contact me at any time.

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Joel Crabb

JULY 28, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.

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Joel Crabb

JULY 28, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.

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Joel Crabb

JULY 28, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at. We sat down in the Target recording studio to tape the show.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 21, 2022

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. An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It contains step-by-step instructions on how to host a lean coffee that you can follow to the t. A central merge guarantees that all the people are up-to-date, even though they were not in the other groups! Cheat sheet. I’ve created a lean coffee "cheat sheet" to facilitate the facilitators.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

The culture and tools are part of the equation; the final piece is having the right processes in place to effectively use the tools and support the people. Schedule chaos days to understand how things break and know how to fix them. What are some processes you can implement to enable safety at speed?

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Xebia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the context of DDD, Theory U can guide teams in co-creating domain models deeply rooted in the reality of the business and its complexities and encouraging a shift from designing software in isolation to engaging in a continuous, empathetic dialogue with domain members to foster a shared understanding for effective domain modeling. Applying (..)

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2022

How to make meaningful change that actually lasts is a challenge all teams and companies face. What do you do when you want something to change in your company or on your team? When your team tries to change, does it stick to new things or are you back to the old ways after a few weeks? .

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Each team would need a new backlog item and would have to figure out how to implement this requirement. Imagine that every development team has crafted their own unique workflow. Now imagine that you want to add SonarQube to the mix. On a Paved Road, this would only have to be added once in one place and everyone would have immediate access.

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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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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. At Honeycomb, the sessions involved discussions about how the role should be defined, how prioritization needs to be done, code reviews, understanding how the product is being driven, and the role of internal advocacy.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Conclusion You have seen how to create a new Slack app, create a handler for your bot, create an interactive layout using Block Kit, and have your handler provide the functionality of your interactive layout to your users. In this article I would like to show you what I learned while building that Slack bot. value, 10); layout.blocks[1].elements[0].value

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

While many of the line management skills I already had translated over, it nonetheless took me quite a while to learn how to effectively “see” the whole organization (and especially where there was friction or where we might need more support) through an additional layer of management.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

The concept reminds us that the timing of an investment and its cost are connected, and that usually things cost much more (in engineers’ time) to address later , but increasing flexibility in the present (opportunity cost) may still be the right choice. So often, those disagreements were emotionally loaded and frustrating on all sides.

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Honeycomb

MAY 29, 2024

David Woods says that those safety departments must be: Independent Involved Informed Informative In this post, we’ll elaborate on what each of those characteristics means, why the CoPE should also match those qualifications, and how to achieve that status. Why it matters: power dynamics We’ll begin by discussing the quality of independence.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. And that with me learning how to deploy ADA services in the cloud. How do you document that?

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Honeycomb

APRIL 26, 2022

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different. How you can take control of your investigations using the scientific method in Honeycomb . Instrumentation.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

These include how to counter isolation and silos by keeping teams in the loop, how to handle time zone differences, what to look for in the hiring process, and onboarding strategies for remote engineers. How do you keep remote and distributed teams in the loop and prevent the feeling that people are siloed and isolated?

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