Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). The charter (aka what site reliability engineers should care about). Take a long-term, holistic view of the system. How site reliability engineers shape their work. I’ll share it here. .

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams.

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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. Someone who can work in both software engineering and automation. is pivotal.

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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. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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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The real vs. simulated systems In Baudrillard’s terms, the authentic experiences and the real have been replaced by symbols and signs ( logs , metrics , traces ).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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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. Nevertheless, Data Engineers started to suffer from repetitive work, having to wait for the data to be loaded, or for the output to be validated. In many cases, these tasks ended up on the shoulders of the Data Engineers themselves.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. 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.

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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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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

The minute COVID-19 hit and everyone had to become not just remote-first, but remote-only, many engineering teams were forced to reckon with the number of manual processes they had in place. 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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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. So why did Google need to create its own definition?

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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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Netlify

MARCH 2, 2021

services: the Netlify CLI , the build system and the serverless function bundler are just a few examples. These are built on three key principles: Automation : By automating recurring tasks whenever possible, we reduce the margin for human error and free up our engineers to focus on the right things. All flavors of it.

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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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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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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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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. Engineering. no oversharing or prying). So many wins in 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. Engineering. no oversharing or prying). So many wins in 2020.

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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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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2022

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s It’s hard to have one piece of practical advice because a team of engineers is a living, breathing entity. “It’s

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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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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

How do you turn complicated, far-flung systems like our widely-distributed system of humans into teams? As engineering leaders, we’re like the mortar between the bricks: We connect structures, teams, and people. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture.

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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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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing. Software engineer. As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements. Quality assurance engineer.

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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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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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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. Furthermore, no interactions or data exchanges were allowed except through API’s.

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