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? Who are personal retrospectives for?

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Clearly this benefits the speed of delivery and flexibility in choosing solutions. Code test. <?php

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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.

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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. Within many organizations, initiatives are started but not completed due to people losing motivation to take the last steps. Progress bars.

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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.

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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. It’s our career-growth framework for engineers.

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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. This failure is partly due to a discrepancy between what people say and what people do. The goal is to change how we change into a more organic, bottom up process. . THE MODERNIST APPROACH. Managers Know Best.

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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

services: the Netlify CLI , the build system and the serverless function bundler are just a few examples. In any of these cases, there’s a certain amount of information that is essential to get upfront, before any meaningful discussion or review can begin. operating system and Node/npm versions). All flavors of it.

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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. That was certainly the case at Slack where releases were delayed due to a high rate (50%) of flaky tests. Also, Honeycomb and the open source framework OpenTelemetry (OTel) are truly better together.

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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.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

The real vs. simulated systems In Baudrillard’s terms, the authentic experiences and the real have been replaced by symbols and signs ( logs , metrics , traces ). In software development, the real can be seen as the initial design and requirement specifications—the ideal system as imagined by its creators.

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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 .

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

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

Our People (HR) team creates a Clubhouse ticket (project management software) that assigns tasks and due dates for everything ranging from granting the employee system access with IT to giving them branded swag to booking all their core meetings. From all of this, we’ve learned a lot about how we can improve our internal systems.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

But to give credit where it’s due: it’s natural for startup founders to look for ways to get more out of their team, and yet it doesn’t seem to be as natural to recognize successes by granting new titles and roles. A knack for systems thinking, paired with equal interest in both human & technological systems.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Step 1: Find the Value Exchange In Escaping the Build Trap , Melissa Perri talks about the system of value exchange. Step 2: People, Personas, and Roles A system of value creation and exchange involves people, each with their own purpose, responsibilities, and jobs to be done.

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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.

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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. Q: What are some bad habits you had to unlearn from other companies?

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

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. This is a big cultural shift! Its uncomfortable for some folks.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The goal was to simulate a loss of a system so that they could build this adaptive environment, so that they didn’t really have to worry about resiliency as much. This is near and dear to us and so we want to make sure that we’re building resilient systems. Then finally, we’re looking at the distributed systems.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

It was good we had that conversation because I had done the last thing at the last startup where I was a department of one and I had built a system that only I had enough context to run. Yoz: There are some kinds of failure that you’re not going to know about because they don’t involve system failure.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

A QA engineer usually collaborates with a product manager to make sure all the quality standards are met throughout the product life cycle. QAs usually develop and execute test plans, review project deliverables, and, as a result, provide comprehensive feedback on quality issues to the rest of team members.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 9, 2024

Applicant tracking system (ATS): Manage applications efficiently, track candidate progress through the hiring pipeline, and organize communication. Applicant tracking system (ATS): Look for features that streamline resume screening, interview scheduling, and offer management.

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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. They may also lack performance improvements or bug fixes that could benefit your project.

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

The price of cloud computing has risen due to the combination of a growing demand and more expensive hardware: Disruption of the supply chain: shortages of chips (GPU, CPU), back orders, broken stocks. Finding and fixing bugs takes time away from designing systems. Shouldering blame: if something goes wrong, blame your Data Engineer!

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. no oversharing or prying). — shelby spees is staying home (@shelbyspees) July 1, 2020.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. no oversharing or prying). — shelby spees is staying home (@shelbyspees) July 1, 2020.

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Xebia

APRIL 17, 2025

Discussion points: Definition of Moving Motivators Freedom was discussed for its definition; one of us said, It feels like f**k my team, as you do not behave within a complex system. Symptoms could be: If people leave sharp at the end of the office day or They are not really participating in meetings for planning or reviewing.

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