O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Again, the key is being proactive: thinking in advance about what identities are needed in the system and determining the appropriate privileges that should be granted to each identity. Giving every user and service broad access just because it’s easier to make the system work is a recipe for failure. That’s an important statement.

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Open Source Engineering Culture Weak Development Team Fractional CTO 110

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.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Weak Development Team Continuous Delivery 91

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?

Engineering 104

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Systems Review 104

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

And despite all this, many engineering leaders worry their teams may actually be under-investing in tech debt, in ways that could negatively impact the business over the long term. With all of these conflicting opinions, it seems like there might be wires crossed in the system somewhere. What’s so wrong with tech debt?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The charter (aka what site reliability engineers should care about). Take a long-term, holistic view of the system. Adapt work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Lead incident practices. Provide tools and assistance.

Software Review 133

Software Review Systems Review Engineering Culture 133

Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This shift has not only revolutionized how software is developed, but has also redefined the engineer’s role. Just a few years ago, the focus was heavily on the technical challenges of getting software to work—connecting disparate systems, ensuring compatibility, and handling the fragility of early tech stacks.

Engineering 59

Engineering Engineering Culture Software Culture 59

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.

Software Review 59

Software Review Software Systems Review Software Development 59

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. Sessions & Workshops.

Hardware 67

Hardware Engineering Software Engineering Culture 67

Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Software is in a crisis. Complex distributed systems are perpetually in a state far from equilibrium, operating in what Richard Cook has called a “degraded mode.” Software is both a product of and part of a sociotechnical system. This is nothing new. Unfortunately, the “socio” bit tends to be underappreciated.

Technical Advisors 95

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

I teamed up with my friends and some super-smart folks to compete in a competition by Microsoft, which is a kind of student contest where you go and create software products. I built a monitoring system, a number of data analysis tools. Hopefully, that sounds familiar, but it’s what it was in 2009.

Internet 154

Internet Engineering Architecture Network 154

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. At Honeycomb, we work to build functionalities to enable you to be the best systems “detective” you can be.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Software Review Systems Review Real Estate 52

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Improving your hiring fortunes is not just about optimising your hiring process, it’s about making systemic changes to your organisation. Hiring is so hard?—?finding Contact me if you are interested or would like to know more.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering How To Open Source Engineering 40

Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

But looking at the responsibilities we were taking around vendor negotiations, voluntarily cross-pollinating silos and impacting engineering teams roadmaps in anticipation of scaling needs, we decided to rework that whole category into a broader “system-level” perspective. It therefore feels like a more adequate fit to our function.

Systems Review 75

Systems Review Sustainability Engineering Scalability 75

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems. However, it needs to be counterbalanced with a constant effort to wrap up or hand off jobs to others to avoid getting bogged down or stifling the growth of the rest of the team.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Technical Review B2C 98

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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CTO Coach Leadership Organization Recruiting 64

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Technical people and business experts used it to discuss the system. Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. Software engineers contribute to designing the products and features they are building. this Share Pie became the unifying theme of the whole application.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

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. Also, a business analyst searches for opportunities to improve the processes and systems needed for the product development.

Examples 52

Examples UI/UX Development Technical Review 52

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. The old career ladder emphasized understanding advanced technologies and building complex systems. The new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, ownership, and XP engineering skills such as test-driven development, refactoring, and simple design. So I told the truth.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

The challenge The working members of your CoPE face a daunting challenge: By joining, they agree to the task of modifying a complex, adaptive system which is subject to financial, human, legal, and other constraints that have placed it in a locally optimal position. For the organization, things are going pretty well, all things considered.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Recruiting Groups Meeting 52

Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s great to have your endorphins rise when you make a split second decision while driving, but not so great when you’re collaborating with others or triaging a potentially complex systems problem. At Honeycomb? The same process takes maybe an hour.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Software Review Culture 52

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 structured presentation of information, and building systems that can help you with that.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

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. Yoz: There are some kinds of failure that you’re not going to know about because they don’t involve system failure.

Weak Development Team 10

Weak Development Team DevOps Testing Agile 10

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

It's about paying attention to the minutiae that, when combined, create a robust and reliable system. Outdated dependencies can expose your application to known security vulnerabilities, potentially compromising your system's integrity. When these practices are combined with a CI system, it creates a powerful workflow.

Engineering 59

Engineering Software Review Technical Review Weak Development Team 59