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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

” A paradigm shift towards sustainable excellence Honeycomb was instrumental in transforming the engineering landscape at Amperity, moving away from the “old school” engineering characterized by grueling weeks and overnight pages for support that often led to burnout.

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How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. When you focus on value delivery alone, you risk sustainability for the future. However, if you spend too much on development, the value delivered will be too low to sustain a viable business.

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You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence

CircleCI

And while I concede there is no VCS branching model that fits all teams, I am happy to have learned that the option CircleCI chose exists, and to have experienced how it affects our delivery cadence, and the engineering culture we build around our product. We build this together.

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How We Define SRE Work

Honeycomb

Adapt work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Take charge of how we respond to and adapt to incidents. Influence work both upstream and downstream of incidents, not just during incidents. Provide tools and assistance.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

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