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.
Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture
Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.
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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution
Honeycomb
APRIL 15, 2024
Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0 While helpful in pinpointing known-unknowns, it impeded the team’s ability to explore the workings of the software, particularly in uncovering unknown-unknowns.
GitHub Universe 2024, what a blast!
Xebia
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The option to see how the same prompt would result in results si de by si de using different mo de ls is very helpful when you are trying to integrate AI into your own software. On top of this, we added our concepts of how to build an engineering culture that goes way beyond the tools but always has GitHub at its core to drive innovation.
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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations
Xebia
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally. What is InnerSource?
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Functional vs non-functional software testing
CircleCI
APRIL 20, 2022
When you think of software testing, what comes up first? Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. Both functional and non-functional testing are crucial components of a comprehensive software testing process , building extra confidence at each application layer.
Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Code review is a key step during the software development process — it’s when people check a program by viewing and reading parts of the source code. But what is verifiable is that Codacy sees a strong business opportunity beyond code reviews in the area of engineering performance monitoring.
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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?
TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2021
Expensify is an SF-founded (now Portland-based), decentralized startup focused on building expense reporting and analytics software for companies and CFOs. That’s peculiar, because the duo honestly couldn’t be more different. New York-based NS1 designs highly redundant DNS and internet traffic performance tools for web applications.
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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2022
It’s well-established that there’s a severe shortage of experienced software developers. In a February poll by Infragistics, more than half (53%) of software developers and IT professionals said that the biggest challenge this year will be recruiting developers with the right skills. million by 2030.
A Software Engineering Career Ladder
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. It tends to snap back.
Article: Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 11, 2024
As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers.
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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Watch this: Enterprise Software that is so easy a 10 year old can demo it. It is hard for an enterprise infrastructure software company to create simple products. Yet, users of those products want a consumer level of simplicity in enterprise software. the time it took to deploy their software end-to-end. .
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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. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch in 2023.
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What Is DevOps Culture?
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
DevOps teams work autonomously and embrace a software engineering culture, workflow, and toolset that elevates operational requirements to the same level of importance as architecture, design and development. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.
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Using team sentiment and process health metrics to identify developer burnout
Allstacks
JANUARY 20, 2022
Because we know engineering wants to take care of their people, Allstacks has a whole set of features and metrics geared toward keeping a pulse on the team and supporting healthy engineering culture. Read more about the impact of Covid-19 on software development.
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Learn how to build a resilient software team
CircleCI
JANUARY 22, 2021
The rollercoaster of 2020 highlighted the competitive advantage that well-oiled software delivery teams provide. The minute COVID-19 hit and everyone had to become not just remote-first, but remote-only, many engineering teams were forced to reckon with the number of manual processes they had in place.
You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence
CircleCI
MAY 26, 2020
The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. We learn things from concepts and processes to languages and tools.
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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs
Honeycomb
MAY 14, 2024
Being on the leading-edge of software development requires quality observability insights, and the company wanted a new partner that could support their engineering charter for continual improvement and growth. When customer data is scattered everywhere, how do you put the pieces together to get an accurate customer 360° view?
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Technical Health Isn’t Optional
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
To help us understand technological health, we asked several CTOs in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region what their companies are doing to prevent security incidents, how they use open source software, how they use technology strategically, and how they retain employees in a challenging job market. Open Source and a Culture of Sharing.
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How do you know DevOps is working?
CloudGeometry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate. Our job as software professionals is to make it worth it to them. Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Collaboration delivers leverage.
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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder
James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. PDF) Here’s a summary of the titles and skills, with changes marked: Associate Software Engineer Associate Software Engineers are just starting their software development careers.
An update on CircleCI's reliability
CircleCI
APRIL 13, 2022
At CircleCI, our mission is to manage change so software teams can innovate faster. 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.
Thoughts on organizing architecture
Xebia
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.
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Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices
Honeycomb
APRIL 29, 2024
In the context of software development, particularly with observability 1.0’s s favorite three buzzwords (logs, metrics, and traces), we can draw several analogies to understand software development and debugging. In software, bugs and unforeseen issues represent this remainder.
Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team
Xebia
APRIL 20, 2022
In general, if you don’t maintain software, it will get “bit rot”: vulnerabilities or hacks that will jeopardize the stability and reliability of the solution. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer.
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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development
Apiumhub
MARCH 3, 2022
Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. We are searching for software talents who are willing to make things better!
DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?
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.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps. The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.
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Thoughts on organizing architecture
Xebia
AUGUST 3, 2021
Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.
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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020
Github
MARCH 11, 2020
Even if you’ve never heard the term “innersource” to describe how teams build their software, you’ll probably still recognize some of the principles behind it. As enterprises increase their investments in open source, they’re also looking behind the code at new ways for their engineering teams to work together quickly, globally, and at scale.
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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?
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.” The whole economy is switching to become software-powered, so more software will be built.
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding
Honeycomb
APRIL 6, 2023
The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. We’ll never lose sight of what it means to build a tool that, in turn, streamlines processes and enriches engineering cultures.
Enhancing Domain-Driven Design Through Collaborative Systems Thinking
Xebia
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Domain-driven design (DDD) has emerged in software engineering as a methodology for tackling complex domain problems by connecting the implementation to an evolving model. The Essence of Collaboration The goal of domain-driven design is to translate the complexity of a context to a software design level. But What Are Systems?
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Article: Getting Rid of Wastes and Impediments in Software Development Using Data Science
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.
On Not Being a Cog in the Machine
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
I’ve got a ton of personal reasons for joining Honeycomb that may not be worth being all public about, but after thinking for a while, I realized that many of the things I personally found interesting could point towards attitudes that result in better software elsewhere. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation.
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Article: Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. By Tariq King
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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018
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 ? by Anagaha, Software Engineer from Suki). 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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SIMPLE Solutions
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? From my own experience, research , and discussions, I have come up with a working definition of simple, packaged into an acronym as we all know the software industry loves a good acronym.
The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future
Honeycomb
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The advent of cloud computing and the rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) transformed the landscape, creating a new model of continuous development and service delivery. This shift has not only revolutionized how software is developed, but has also redefined the engineer’s role. Observability 2.0 Observability 2.0
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I’m thinking about developer productivity.
Xebia
MARCH 21, 2024
” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. ” Let’s consider the most senior person in a development team; that one person with intricate knowledge of and experience working on the software. Let’s explore. ” (p.
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Four short links: 18 March 2020
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MARCH 17, 2020
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. That may be no longer true.
The Engineering of Software
The Programmer's Paradox
DECEMBER 19, 2011
I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. If you boil it down again and again, software development keeps coming back to its roots in engineering. Engineering itself is not boring. It took them a long time to go from alchemy to engineering. Early on I moved away from the cowboys.
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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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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar
Strategic Tech
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.
People, processes, and technology shine bright on the road to digital transformation
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 build great products by reusing existing software assets and reducing software development, risk, and maintenance costs.
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