Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At its essence, a DevOps culture involves closer collaboration and a shared responsibility between development and operations for the products they create and maintain. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.

Culture 97

Culture DevOps Engineering Culture Software Engineering 97

Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

Challenge Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy. Amperity’s observability depended on a suite of tools for logs, metrics, and dashboards. The challenge?

Engineering 111

Engineering Engineering Culture Sustainability Fractional CTO 111

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It’s important to use tools to scan for vulnerabilities—particularly tools provided by cloud vendors, such as Microsoft Azure’s Container Registry , which integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure Security Center) to scan containers for vulnerabilities continuously. That’s an important statement.

Open Source 112

Open Source Engineering Culture Weak Development Team Fractional CTO 112

CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

The path of a software engineer is one of constant learning. We learn things from concepts and processes to languages and tools. 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.

Software Review 132

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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.” It’s about expanding the theoretical part to an efficient workflow, with the right work methods, tools and so on. 4 Leverage Tooling and Automation. 5 Measure Everything.

DevOps 145

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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. What are some of the tech tools your team is using? We leverage vendor support with each of the manufacturer’s planning tools as well. We rely on each other.

Engineering 98

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

There were so many times we were told to give up because more established APM tools dominated the market—we were told this was a “solved problem.” We’ll never lose sight of what it means to build a tool that, in turn, streamlines processes and enriches engineering cultures.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling. Next up is selecting the right tooling and processes. Invest in tools that make things easier. Tools should be useful, usable, and change the underlying problems, not create more.

DevOps 135

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. When you look at the foundations of the Agile mindset, we see that one of its core values states: working product over processes and tools. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

Agile 130

Agile Performance Culture Guidelines 130

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another. Improving the Flow of Work through the system – tools include Limit Work In Progress (aka WIP), Cross-Skilling, and Eliminating Bottlenecks.

Agile 124

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. Django gave us the tools and flexibility to build a platform that was flexible yet robust. Our engineering culture embodies the essence of open source, and it’s a small contribution to the community ? Flashback. This was more than intuition! ).

Open Source 157

Open Source Culture Engineering Culture Innovation 157

CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

Artificial Inteligence 203

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

As enterprises increase their investments in open source, they’re also looking behind the code at new ways for their engineering teams to work together quickly, globally, and at scale. At Ford Motor Company , code is increasingly open by default to bring more ideas to the table, says Software Processes and Tools Supervisor Timothy Carmean.

Organization 118

Organization Software Review Open Source Part-Time VPE 118

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 17, 2020

Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

Engineering Culture 57

Engineering Culture Open Source Software Engineering Games 57

CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption. One way to address this complexity is to use a sophisticated testing tool like Selenium. Even with modern tools like Selenium, methods like closed-box testing take a long time to run and write.

Software Review 98

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Where once there were multiple layers of mediation between the product and customer, now engineers can and should be receiving near-instant feedback about their software’s performance. This shift has brought observability to the forefront as a crucial tool for understanding and improving customer experience. New to Honeycomb?

Engineering 59

Engineering Engineering Culture Software Culture 59

Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2018

Despite the promise of cloud native architectures, customers lacked the necessary tools to effectively optimize their infrastructure, resulting in millions in dollars of losses due to low utilization and lost productivity. At Hyperpilot, we witnessed these challenges in every public and private cloud customer we engaged.

Artificial Inteligence 67

Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Analytics Engineering Culture 67

InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

Artificial Inteligence 117

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Provide tools and assistance. Develop software and write fixes to help improve the reliability of our systems in order to let engineers focus on their primary tasks. An additional purpose of the charter is to act as a communication tool. Tools & Assistance. Here’s a look at my 2021 grid: Period. Owning Reliability.

Software Review 133

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Additionally, GitHub offers a range of communication tools to support effective collaboration within your community. Building blocks are often constructed using tools like Bicep or Terraform, both of which support the creation of modules that can be hosted in repositories such as Azure Container Registry or Terraform Cloud.

Open Source 162

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When I joined Discover® Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. It is an essential part of our work to develop ourselves and develop others.

Technology 88

Technology Open Source Culture Engineering 88

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Tool chain investments Tool chain investments sound like they should be easy to pitch. Tools make us more productive, and everyone wants more productive engineers, right? But in reality, getting a solid return on investment from bringing in a new tool or an existing one can be a challenge. What’s a payback period?

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

Changing hard controls, such as reward schemes and changing the organization architecture, are not always available for managers as tools to achieve enterprise change. In other words, gamification is a great tool to realize enterprise change. . Gamification effectively means applying gaming mechanisms to a non-game context (source).

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Games Social Systems Review 130

Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

If we were to take it one step further, where test automation is not only a tool to validate what we have made, but rather a way to write self-testing code , we find practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). Instead, it is a design tool that happens to result in testable designs with thoroughly tested code.

Software Review 130

Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 130

Xebia

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The lean coffee is a vital tool in my toolbox. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Why is the lean coffee a powerful format?

Groups 130

Groups Meeting Tools Organization 130

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.

Infrastructure 75

Infrastructure Scalability Cloud Data 75

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This underlines how important mechanisms such as chaos engineering or blame-aware incident reviews can be—they are processes meant to figure out where and how things break down, and to let us, as teams, re-synchronize and update our individual mental models of the whole sociotechnical system.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review System 138

CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

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. Combat hero culture and fix structural issues.

Culture 134

Culture Engineering Performance Energy 134

CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Collaboration.

Software Review 59

Software Review Engineering Virtualization Engineering Culture 59

CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

I have the good fortune of not only leading a developer-first company focused on delivering value to engineers, but also seeing how thousands of the world’s best teams move their code from idea to delivery. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.

Software Review 75

Software Review Software How To Technical Review 75

Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

I’m convinced that one of the reasons why we’re able to cover so much surface area is the rigorous set of tools and processes that we put in place. Consistency : All our repositories share the same basic structure, conventions and tools. We automate a lot of this with a tool called Cookiecutter. Project templates.

Software Review 69

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Testing 69

Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Instead, managers can use practical tools like Liberating Structures and EventStorming to help the group agree on what issues need to be addressed. You do this by getting different meaningclouds together and being open to what comes out of these. It is important that the manager does not dictate what is discussed.

Groups 130

Groups Change Management Systems Review Authentication 130

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

I initialized, I stayed on the platform and tooling side. I built a monitoring system, a number of data analysis tools. And I also worked a little bit on the public-facing tool. And as of today, I’m a hands-on engineering leader. And over time, we added some extra services on top of pure video delivery.

Internet 154

Internet Engineering Architecture Network 154

Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

And, bonus, Honeycomb integrates easily into existing development tools, so teams can spend time innovating rather than context switching. Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day.

Software Review 52

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Many observability tools will offer a simple library you can include in your application’s front-end to perform “real user monitoring.” Users might follow a different path with unexpected problems, and these will not be found pro-actively using this method. Also, the recorded flow is subject to continuous maintenance.

Metrics 130

Metrics Case Study Testing Study 130

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

While you don’t need to be an expert in every area of engineering to be an engineering executive, a little empathy and high-level domain understanding across all your teams goes a long way. Having experience in the dev tools and monitoring space; being a tools nerd.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Technical Review B2C 98

Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

GenAI tools provide instant feedback. Lump of labor fallacy “… the lump of labor fallacy is telling us here that there is not some fixed amount (…) of labor to be done in the world (…) we are just going to keep coming up with new jobs that we could not have imagined would exist.” Some manual tasks are automated.

Development 130

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