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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Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Results Transforming engineering with modern observability for logs “We adopted Honeycomb to enable a deeper understanding of the principles behind observability. Now, with Amperity’s 80 engineers investigating code issues, they can access a wealth of contextual information with Honeycomb that wasn’t previously available.

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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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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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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. The two also dove a bit deeper into the topic of creating a culture of experimentation among your team. “The Leading with empathy—and using service level objectives.

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

The characteristics of our flow, like short lived branches, and fast deployment cycles, have been shown to correlate with high performance teams. Our model synergizes extremely well with CI/CD best-practices. How you can do it. If you are accustomed to a more traditional flow like I was, this probably sounds scary.

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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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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

Five factors that create high-performing distributed teams. The research shows that there are five key factors that make teams high-performing: Psychological safety. But many of the practices that high-performing teams use are much easier to do when everyone is in the same room. Three Cs for leading high-performance teams.

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Xebia

APRIL 16, 2025

account.order.product.price.sum() , you can perform complex data manipulations directly within your workflow definition. Both intrinsic functions and JSONata reduce overhead, improve performance, and lower costs since they don’t require separate Lambda invocations. With expressions like $.account.order.product.price.sum()

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

Of course, those platforms can only perform properly when the strength of the people behind them are optimized. So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. For us, it’s about enabling the technology platforms that support and deliver on that.”

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. It can quickly consume your team’s engineering bandwidth. There are many types of non-functional tests: Performance testing. Performance testing. What is non-functional testing?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In a modern software architecture, a lot of the work will be performed by services that access other services, and each service needs its own identity and its own set of privileges. 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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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. In fact, people normally gain emotional intelligence with age, he says.

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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 ? We invited comedians to perform at Djangothon. a token of respect, a small payback. So the question was, how can we make Djangothon worthy for developers? can make the hackathon experience enjoyable and truly memorable.

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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.” Reliability is not just about the infrastructure, it’s relevant every step of the way – from application quality, through performance and up to security.

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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.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

The “User flow monitoring” quadrant aims to gain insight into the availability and performance of a critical business flow from a user’s perspective. Many observability tools will offer a simple library you can include in your application’s front-end to perform “real user monitoring.” How could we approach this checkout flow?

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d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lack of Visibility and Management As various parts of the organization require new Kubernetes clusters, it becomes increasingly difficult to know where they exist, how they are performing, and to govern the usage and versions of cloud native software to support application efforts.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Where once there were multiple layers of mediation between the product and customer, now engineers can and should be receiving near-instant feedback about their software’s performance. delivers the sharp insights engineers need to make smart decisions about both software performance and customer satisfaction.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2018

We leveraged our team’s involvement in academic and industry research that demonstrated 4-5X efficiency improvement in large-scale clusters at Google, building on techniques such as configuration auto-tuning, performance isolation, and machine learning based scheduling.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

The 2019 report showed elite companies have 46 times more frequent code deployments than low-performing teams and a 2,555 times faster lead time to move from code commit to deploy to support their initiatives to move faster. These companies would cherry-pick statistics from reports such as the Accelerate: State of DevOps Report.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Our customers are doing great things with observability, like finding issues before their users do , executing challenging migrations more seamlessly , and making deploys boring —the markers of high-performance engineering. Enabling your team to work better together, through observability, is our ultimate goal.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Assessing our own performance as individual engineers - and telling the story of that performance to our colleagues - is difficult, and gets harder as we grow in our careers. Taking a relatively formal, personal system with us from role to role “frees” us from local performance management systems.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. From hiring, to structured feedback, to performance reviews, it helps us hold everyone to the same standards and clarify expectations as we scale.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Resilience is an activity they perform, rather than a property attributable to the organization. Once those passive maneuvers are up and running, the CoPE members merely need to perform regular check-ins, or play their own part if they are participants of the relevant social institution. They don’t take that achievement for granted.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. We’ve also been able to use the new career ladder as a touchstone for people who are having performance problems. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

In each of these sections, you typically first record the change in state of the workflow and then perform steps to move the workflow forward, such as executing a Stratum function or returning the results of the execution (For more details, see this presentation ). Today there are about 40 cosmos services and we expect more growth to come.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

From rolling out major product additions like CircleCI Insights and private orbs , along with educational resources like our developer hub and State of Software Delivery Report that includes the first CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing engineering teams, it seems like every day there is something new to look forward to.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When thinking about micro-services it’s easy to think about how smaller pieces would be less complicated to reason about, I mentioned that exact point above, or how parallelising workflows would increase performance but what about the management of those smaller services? From my experience it does not.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

And with Honeycomb, teams can easily monitor key factors such as performance degradation, response times, and resource utilization to ensure that systems continue to operate as they should. Get granular visibility into the behavior of distributed systems before, during, and after deployments.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Before you begin, make sure you choose the most informative metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), so that you can track the project from onset to completion and beyond. You should also consider whether your choice of technology stack will be able to provide solid performance and an appealing user experience now and into the future.

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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. In other words, you want to be able to: Question the performance of your system.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 13, 2023

I was working for a big company that had a strong vibrant engineering culture. When we were happy with how our code was performing, we’d give the code to the QA group. Not sure what happened, but my initial understanding of the role of DevOps comes from my experiences in the early 90s. We were doing very complex, low-level work.

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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.

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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. 360° feedback helps informed performance, training needs, career development areas while reducing bias.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

Customer-focused metrics were used to guide a team’s performance, and teams were expected to work both autonomously and asynchronously to improve customer outcomes. Initially this created havoc in operations, which was responsible for any problems that surfaced once code ‘went live’. Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto.

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