Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Results Transforming engineering with modern observability for logs “We adopted Honeycomb to enable a deeper understanding of the principles behind observability. Now, with Amperity’s 80 engineers investigating code issues, they can access a wealth of contextual information with Honeycomb that wasn’t previously available.

Engineering 111

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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.

Open Source 112

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. Sociotechnical systems and context awareness. Fostering Human Processes. is pivotal.

Technical Review 138

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That can soon become difficult however, since AI systems seem to be doubling in capability every three to six months. Madan is responsible for thousands of technology-focused employees — people who write code, configure systems, implement security and set up networks. But we’re a smaller health system.”

Artificial Inteligence 203

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Once objectives have been set, whole system alignment makes sure all of them work across the three levels of the Agile organization ; leadership, teams and individuals add to the central purpose.

Agile 130

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Confluent

MAY 23, 2019

Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.

Video 109

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. A design system in a way is a decision-framework that enables local decision-making and ensures compliance to the corporate brand and experience. However, context matters here.

Architecture 130

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. A design system in a way is a decision-framework that enables local decision-making and ensures compliance to the corporate brand and experience. However, context matters here. Code test. <?php php class Test {.

Architecture 130

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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.” That’s why it’s important to minimize the manual system work, and automate the collection of information. So why did Google need to create its own definition?

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

Unit tests for an API application might make requests against the system deployed in a testing environment and compare the responses against documentation. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. Integration testing. Unit testing.

Software Review 98

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Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo? What is unique about your culture? Our engineering culture is really a team atmosphere. Our team is trained to be able to not only log into all of our network management systems but also to be able to design, commission and provision our network components.

Engineering 98

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Honeycomb is building for software engineering teams —which means we leverage the expertise of those who know your systems deeply, and unlock collaboration across specialties. We build sociotechnical systems. Observability for all—for real. Enabling your team to work better together, through observability, is our ultimate goal.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Test automation is not a project or a one-off—it is part of the development lifecycle and should be seen as its own system that needs to evolve over time as the requirements and system under test change and mature. Delivery pipelines and source code management systems help—for example, you can gate pull requests on a failing test.

Software Review 130

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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. Observability 2.0

Engineering 59

Engineering Engineering Culture Software Culture 59

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

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Functional Monitoring helps bridge the gap between technical metrics and real user impact to make the observability of the system complete. With Synthetic Testing, we continuously get information about the availability of the system. For instance, all services could be “green”, while our customers experience broken functionality.

Metrics 130

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

While I have a lot of strong opinions on how to best bring automation to engineering teams, it’s clear that the most advanced, powerful automation tools need one crucial element to succeed: people. For businesses, the first phase of the pandemic was about systems: updating and building your tech stack so you could operate as fully remote.

Software Review 75

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

How do you turn complicated, far-flung systems like our widely-distributed system of humans into teams? 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. Five factors that create high-performing distributed teams.

Culture 134

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. How can we automatically provision or de-provision access privileges?

Infrastructure 74

Infrastructure Scalability Cloud Data 74

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

In that year we were supposed to solve one of the big United Nations problems and what we did, we were building a system to monitor and contain the spread of pandemic diseases. 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

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. By Jesse McCrosky

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

Software Engineering 75

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Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

Causal inference “… how do you know one thing caused another …” Software development organizations are complex systems. There are several examples of organizations gathering lots of data to get an idea of how such a system works, like Google’s “ Project Aristotle.”

Development 130

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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. Learning “in the open” creates a kind of safety in an engineering culture.

Engineering 104

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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. In my experience when a new feature or system is being designed, it usually starts off as this big idea with no boundaries or clarity. Single Purpose.

Minimum Viable Product 130

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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. This lighter-weight approach allows us to have a lot more skills, and we were hoping it would remove the bias the previous system had toward self-promotion and longevity. I tend to agree. It’s still a burden.

Software Engineering 63

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

It’s not just about moving fast and breaking things; it is about having the right systems and processes in place to support this way of working. You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling. Setting yourself up for success.

DevOps 135

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

Observability provides the ability to see inside your complex and distributed systems to know exactly what’s happening in real time. Get granular visibility into the behavior of distributed systems before, during, and after deployments. Also, Honeycomb and the open source framework OpenTelemetry (OTel) are truly better together.

Software Review 52

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Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

By implementing gamification, managers can extrinsically motivate employees (for example, with point/reward systems) without touching the hard controls within an organization. Managers have to rely on soft controls, appealing to people’s intrinsic motivation, to realize change.

Enterprise 130

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Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2022

These new terms can help us have more nuanced, meaningful discussions by freeing us from associations with the old system. Here, I’ll share not only an approach to change that originates from a different paradigm, but also new terms we can use to talk about change. The goal is to change how we change into a more organic, bottom up process. .

Groups 130

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

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. Software is in a crisis. This is nothing new. Unfortunately, the “socio” bit tends to be underappreciated.

Technical Advisors 95

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Emily Nakashima, VP Engineering, Honeycomb .

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance How To Systems Review 52

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

I want to be able to have the confidence that when I deploy my backend service, the core features of my system still function as expected ‘E2E’. In the case of an E2E test, I want to make sure that when I update the backend, that my E2E tests run, so I will have some feedback about the integration of the services.

Testing 130

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 23, 2023

When the original paper was published, each squad owned a small chunk of the UI or behaviour of the system. Instead, focus on the things that Spotify had going underneath the hood: Delivering Value - all improvements to the system should be tested by asking: Does this improvement/experiment, help us deliver value?

SCRUM 52

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

In capability indexing, users assess the ability of a process or system to fulfill their business specifications and requirements along three axes: the best-case scenario, the worst-case scenario, and the “average” or typical case. This should include asking questions like: What is the system architecture? Establishing an IT culture.

Azure 52

Azure Metrics Test-Driven Development Applications 52

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. Your systems will naturally grow in complexity and scale, and so should your observability tool’s ability to track it.

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