Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It’s about seeing beyond the code and into the lived experience of the user, making engineering as much about human interaction as it is about technology. See how Pax8 transformed to an engineering culture of curiosity with observability 2.0. The post The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0

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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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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering. Debt is still a useful concept While tech debt is rarely a helpful label when making the argument to pay down debt, the notion of “debt” remains a useful one in software engineering.

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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 cornerstone of DDD lies in its emphasis on collaboration among the domain members.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Dhevi joined Netflix in July 2020 and is one of many Data Engineers who have onboarded remotely during the pandemic. In this post, Dhevi talks about her passion for data engineering and taking on a new role during the pandemic. One great thing about working with data is the impact you can create as an engineer.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

In software, this can be likened to the parts of the system we do not fully understand or monitor. This is where the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in software engineering is analogous to the remainder—the aspects of reality that cannot be fully captured, controlled, or represented by our symbolic systems.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 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. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. What is a personal retrospective?

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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.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Common patterns: what are the responsibilities of a Principal Engineer. He or she is one of the key faces of engineering and the company and enables awareness of the company while attracting talent and participating in tech conferences. Principal Engineer is in charge of driving engineering culture.

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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 ? 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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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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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Software engineer. As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements. For instance, software engineers need to make sure their code is ready to interact with other layers of the entire technology stack.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education. Instead, it mentioned characteristics of the person they wanted: Someone who can debug both automated and human processes.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. Software engineers contribute to designing the products and features they are building. I hope you also enjoyed my highlights, but I would still recommend reading the whole story in the book.

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Software is in a crisis. This is nothing new. Complex distributed systems are perpetually in a state far from equilibrium, operating in what Richard Cook has called a “degraded mode.” However, there are some organizations that seem to have an easier time of it than others.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering.

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Honeycomb

MAY 29, 2024

As our Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones says , production excellence is important for cloud-native software organizations because it ensures a safe, reliable, and sustainable system for an organization’s customers and employees. A CoPE helps organizations cultivate the practices and tools necessary to achieve that consistently.

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Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

Getting the right people working in the CoPE is crucial to success because these change agents must limber up the organization and promote the flexibility necessary to perform resilience.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 21, 2022

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

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE).

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. Last year, I wrote How We Define SRE Work. This article described how I came up with the charter for the SRE team, which we bootstrapped right around then. It’s been a while. We are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts of spheres.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. This time, we asked! Along with the title question, we also asked about their prior companies, how we differ, and what surprised them most about working here.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new.

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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.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 15, 2024

While helpful in pinpointing known-unknowns, it impeded the team’s ability to explore the workings of the software, particularly in uncovering unknown-unknowns. It also fell short in supporting an engineering culture of ownership and curiosity within the organization, exacerbated by the pricing model.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This practice, while small and often overlooked, can have a significant impact on the overall excellence of a software engineering project. The true power of these small actions lies not just in the immediate time saved, but in the cumulative effect they have on the organization's engineering culture.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

That’s fascinating because it touches on so much of what you know and I’ve been in software engineering for a couple of decades now, a couple of days, decades, but sounds like couple of days. Like you need tools that respect that responsibility, that respect your time. I guess is what I would say. That’s great.

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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. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.”

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