James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”

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Allstacks

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the summer of 2021, we published an article on preventing developer burnout and tech culture’s historical tendency to glamorize being “so busy.” Read more about the impact of Covid-19 on software development. But our interest in the topic is more than a passing trend.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2022

Engineers are natural readers. I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

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

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Apiumhub

MARCH 3, 2022

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. The other open question is whether engineers feel this system is better.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Let’s look at how we know how well we are doing that.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of.

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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.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Today’s article is about the role of a Principal Engineer as many people still have doubts who is this person and what is his/her responsibilities in a company. Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend.

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Our environment allows developers to find solutions that have already been developed.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For personal reasons, I decided to move on from a Staff “Engineer” position* for something possibly closer to operations and incident handling. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on.

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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. People: how Discover engineers grow through peer-to-peer teaching At Discover, continuous learning is ingrained in our culture.

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Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity? ” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. A development team can be very productive in terms of output, e.g., delivering several features quickly.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. He shared his experiences from when he led the SRE team at Netflix, and how thats influenced the way he’s helped the Datadog team put process around chaos engineering experiments. We’re pretty good.

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The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The last thing I ever wanted to be -- twenty-six years ago -- was an engineer. When I started university I had heard that 70% of all engineers hate their jobs and that they were often bored at work. I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. Engineering itself is not boring.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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. T he simpler it is to explain , the simpler it is to understand. Any ambiguity in the requirements will lead to ambiguity in the implementation.

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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. Plato is a forward chaining rule engine which lends itself to the asynchronous and compute-intensive nature of our algorithms.

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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, this can be likened to the parts of the system we do not fully understand or monitor.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success of their business. Make it Clear That You Treat Software Developers Extremely Well Software developers are not interchangeable.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Recently at Xebia, a new office location opened up in Amsterdam. At this location there is only a limited number of parking spots, and we want to avoid colleagues arriving at the office with their car without an available spot to park.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

Ever since Mark Zuckerburg uttered the phrase “move fast and break things,” it has become the motto of many development teams. *Originally published on DevOps.com. Companies wanting to be the next unicorn decided this must be the way to operate. The race was on to release more, ship faster, never stop.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

A defective software development process, for instance, may appear to be reducing the overall number of bugs reaching the users, but the driving cause of the decreases might just be the throttling of the development effort. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Back in the dotcom boom, when software development became popular it attracted a great deal of outsiders.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. Software engineers contribute to designing the products and features they are building. As an engineer, if a model seems simple, always remind yourself to keep looking for any hidden complexity before it blindsides you.

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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.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

In practice, cross-functional teams often use Agile development methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , XP , etc. For example, the UX designer may closely work with the developer to ensure the software’s interface is user-friendly. Here, we will focus on software development so the roles will be chosen correspondingly.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. I guess is what I would say. That’s great.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

While reading the book, I had an interesting realisation that doing small things really well can also lead to engineering excellence. What is engineering excellence? Engineering excellence, in the context of software development, is the relentless pursuit of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in every aspect of our work.

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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. Teams released software early and often.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems. That’s an important statement.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. Psychology values Team Pyramid. It’s an analogy to the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs. Related to the “Psychological Safety rated as the common in successful teams” Learned it in a session facilitated by Amy.

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