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.

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Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity? ” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. A development team can be very productive in terms of output, e.g., delivering several features quickly.

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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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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Let’s look at how we know how well we are doing that.

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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 build great products by reusing existing software assets and reducing software development, risk, and maintenance costs.

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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.

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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. This concept parallels the unnoticed or ignored bugs and system flaws in software development.

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

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. At CircleCI, my team uses a short-lived branching model for software development.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? We’re here to remind you that it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Think in terms of modern software development which mostly involves receiving data, transforming it, and sending it to the next part of the system. T he simpler it is to explain , the simpler it is to understand. Any ambiguity in the requirements will lead to ambiguity in the implementation.

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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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.” In order to better communicate and build better products, DevOps became one of the most critical positions in every company.

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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. 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.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”. It’s undeniable that open source has changed the way we all build software. It’s how people build proprietary software across industries, teams, and time zones.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience. is not just about software development.

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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. this company is highly bureaucratic and it’s probably hard for developers to do any interesting or innovative work here. Not all code is created equal.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Recently at Xebia, a new office location opened up in Amsterdam. At this location there is only a limited number of parking spots, and we want to avoid colleagues arriving at the office with their car without an available spot to park.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The approach they’ve had the entire way through felt deeply centered on people-first, characterizing people as non-linear first-order components in software development , and fully aware of sociotechnical challenges The awareness of people’s value appeared to run deep throughout the company.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

The cost of these small domain-related changes (like renaming, and extracting parts of code) is so little that it should be a good habit of every professional developer. In this story, the engineers and project manager decided to be bold and spend the time improving the model at the risk of missing a deadline.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

We are still in mid-journey but we can share a few highlights of what we have learned so far: The Netflix culture played a key role The Netflix engineering culture famously relies on personal judgement rather than top-down control. Software developers have both freedom and responsibility to take risks and make decisions.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Back in the dotcom boom, when software development became popular it attracted a great deal of outsiders.

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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.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

A defective software development process, for instance, may appear to be reducing the overall number of bugs reaching the users, but the driving cause of the decreases might just be the throttling of the development effort. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

Ever since Mark Zuckerburg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. *Originally published on DevOps.com. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate. The race was on to release more, ship faster, never stop.

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The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. Some people on the outside might have confused that development process with a classic waterfall one, but it wasn’t really. If you boil it down again and again, software development keeps coming back to its roots in engineering.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

The roles inside a cross-functional product development team In this section, we’ll address some key roles that might be present inside a cross-functional product development team. Here, we will focus on software development so the roles will be chosen correspondingly.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

What is engineering excellence? Engineering excellence, in the context of software development, is the relentless pursuit of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in every aspect of our work. Each individual action might seem minor, but together they create a robust, secure, and efficient development process.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? My SRE team looks more like a software development team than it looks like assisted team. Some of them have that background but in reality most of them are software developers.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant.

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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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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

See How Google Tests Software , [7] by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon, and Jeff Carollo for more information. The Lean Approach to Software It’s hard to count the many times that someone told me “software development is not like manufacturing.” A production view of software development is fundamentally flawed.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. Psychology values Team Pyramid. It’s an analogy to the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs. Related to the “Psychological Safety rated as the common in successful teams” Learned it in a session facilitated by Amy.

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