Engineering Culture

Your software could be the best in the world, but if you cannot get it in the hands of your users, failure beckons. Learn about how to deliver software efficiently with an analogy involving tea. Recommended Resources Continuous Integration AWS Codepipeline https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/ Buddy https://buddy.works/ GitHub Actions https://docs.github.com/en/actions GitLab CI https://docs.gitlab...

The final installment of the metadata trilogy. Yes, a secret trilogy of system monitoring! We share why engineers need to work closely with their colleagues in product, data science, design, marketing, support, and finance, because today... every company is a tech company. Recommended Resources Data Engineering Apache Spark for MapReduce operations on Big Data https://spark.apache.org/ Apache Kafk...

Good teams know what service availability is in general. Great teams know what their service availability is specifically. Excellent teams, however, use their service availability budget to drive engineering decision making. Recommended Resources Service Level Objectives Datadog Service Level Objectives https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/service_level_objectives/ Recommended Books Site...

"It works on my computer!" is never a response you want to hear from anyone working in software. We share some of the fundamental expectations for keeping software services running, and the tools that engineers use to keep them. Recommended Resources The Four Golden Signals Monitoring Distributed Systems https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/ Alerting platforms PagerDuty https...

Long term success only comes when individuals are given clear responsibilities, and held accountable. Here we share some of the fundamental organisational decisions that create accountable teams, which are setup for success. Recommended Resources Service Teams, as defined in the Spotify Model: Two short videos explain the basics of the Spotify model https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/03/spotif...

Whether you want to be a better engineer, or you want your company to hire better engineers, the path is the same: you need to be improving. For engineers this means increasing certain skills around programming, development, and systems. For companies, it's about having the right engineering culture for your point in the company journey, and this won't be fixed i.e. you need adaptable leaders. Rec...

Welcome to the Engineering Culture podcast! We give an overview of what the podcast is about, why you should listen to us, and plans for the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.