Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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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. As Josh explains, “Quality data and context are imperative to sustain our advancements. The challenge?

Engineering 111

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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. We build this together.

Software Review 132

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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.

Technical Review 138

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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? But even the best observability offering needs a culture of support.

Software Review 52

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. A production view of software development is fundamentally flawed.

Software Review 91

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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.

Software Engineering 52

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