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Context switching strategies to preserve your focus

Switching between tasks comes with the territory for software engineers. Here are some tactics to help you preserve focus.

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DevOps for engineering managers

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17 Jan 2023 Article

Documentation is broken

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How to break the “get me everything” cycle

Jeffrey Sherman

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19 Dec 2022 Article

On-call is a necessary function for any organization

Chris Evans

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12 Dec 2022 Article

How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process

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07 Dec 2022 Article

When, not if: The playbook method for managing risk

Yonatan Zunger

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01 Dec 2022 Article

LeadDev editor’s picks: December 2022

Scott Carey

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30 Nov 2022 Article

Navigating complexity as an engineering leader

Rohit Kumar

6 mins

15 Nov 2022 Article

Why business context is important for technical decision-making

Kevin Ball

7 mins

07 Nov 2022 Article

Why traditional observability tools aren't cutting it anymore

Shahar Fogel

4 mins

17 Oct 2022 Article

How to reduce stress for on-call engineering teams

Peter Simkins

4 mins

10 Oct 2022 Article

Bringing together a social model of open source

Julia Ferraioli

6 mins

03 Oct 2022 Article

How to create sustainable on-call rotations

Ryn Daniels

7 mins

14 Sep 2022 Article

Want to accelerate incident response? Empower customer service teams.

Jonathan Rende

8 mins

30 Aug 2022 Article

Why the most advanced technology solution isn’t always the correct one

Kevin Stewart

9 mins

30 Aug 2022 Article

Born-left security: The new approach taking over shift-left

Aviram Shmueli

9 mins

08 Aug 2022 Article

How to communicate the state of your open source project

Julia Ferraioli

9 mins

27 Jul 2022 Article

How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles

Bernhard Schandl

10 mins

12 Jul 2022 Article

Four engineering leadership trends you need to know

Kevin Dallaire

9 mins

30 Jun 2022 Article

Why on-call pain is a sociotechnical problem

Charity Majors

15 mins

06 Jun 2022 Article

Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together

Shikhar Bajaj

7 mins

01 Jun 2022 Article

Reporting to the board as an engineering leader: Secrets to success

Dalia Havens

11 mins

25 May 2022 Article

Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale

Ella Morrish

5 mins

18 May 2022 Article

What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?

Gregory Chase

7 mins

11 May 2022 Article

Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly

Hillary Nussbaum

6 mins

04 May 2022 Article

Three steps for managing toil as you scale

Adam Shepard

16 mins

11 Apr 2022 Article

How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity

Cory Watson

12 mins

30 Mar 2022 Article

Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals

Irving Popovetsky

8 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Who is responsible for open source security?

Chetan Conikee

9 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team

Dan Persa

11 mins

23 Feb 2022 Article

How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving

Emma Burstow

12 mins

17 Feb 2022 Article

Running your first internal hackathon

Anthony Mayer

11 mins

07 Feb 2022 Article

How to drive decisions as an engineering leader

Sarah Drasner

10 mins

03 Feb 2022 Article

Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs

Rafael Esquiçato

9 mins

01 Feb 2022 Article

Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?

Cassidy Williams

5 mins

18 Jan 2022 Article

Getting big changes implemented at the staff+ level

Zach Millman

10 mins

10 Jan 2022 Article

How to cultivate a great engineering process

Nickolas Means

11 mins

22 Dec 2021 Article

How Netflix, Teachers Pay Teachers, Honeycomb, and more used observability in 2021

Lesley Cordero

Kristie Howard

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15 mins

19 Nov 2021 Article

Delegation is a superpower

Caitlin Hudon

8 mins

15 Nov 2021 Article

An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Chinmay Gaikwad

10 mins

11 Nov 2021 Article

Learnings from ‘The engineering leader’s guide to data-driven leadership’

Ella Morrish

9 mins

10 Nov 2021 Article

An introduction to issue management

Chinmay Gaikwad

13 mins

27 Oct 2021 Article

The rise of OpenTelemetry

Phillip Carter

10 mins

14 Oct 2021 Article

Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org

Bryan Helmkamp

Pat Kua

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6 mins

30 Sep 2021 Article

Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide

Pat Kua

James McGill

+1 more

7 mins

22 Sep 2021 Article

How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups

Khan Smith

Pat Kua

+1 more

8 mins

15 Jun 2021 Article

The search for the best solution: third party or open source?

Tal Joffe

8 mins

11 Jun 2021 Article

140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system

Tobias Günther

5 mins

05 May 2021 Article

The long tail of product features

Arjen de Ruiter

7 mins

28 Apr 2021 Article

Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day

Camille Fournier

6 mins

15 Apr 2021 Article

Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay

Manasi Kulkarni

11 mins

15 Apr 2021 Article

To build, or to buy, that is the question

Wouter Van Geluwe

7 mins

12 Apr 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

3 mins

30 Mar 2021 Article

The art of self-organizing engineering teams

Tom Sommer

9 mins

26 Mar 2021 Article

Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects

Tanya Reilly

7 mins

24 Mar 2021 Article

Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it

Dawn Parzych

7 mins

10 Mar 2021 Article

A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector

Ted Young

3 mins

18 Feb 2021 Article

What is observability and why should you care?

Ted Young

6 mins

10 Feb 2021 Article

Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Cate Huston

7 mins

23 Nov 2020 Article

How to measure and improve success in your engineering team

Eric Rabinovich

15 mins

09 Nov 2020 Article

The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team

Hillary Nussbaum

3 mins

29 Oct 2020 Article

Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation

Edoardo Turelli

8 mins

27 Oct 2020 Article

Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too

Sarah Milstein

9 mins

22 Oct 2020 Article

Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team

Hillary Nussbaum

4 mins

14 Oct 2020 Article

How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage

Santiago Esteva

12 mins

13 Oct 2020 Article

Tell better stories with observability

Elizabeth Carretto

6 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Preventing process deadlock

Victor Vu

7 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Building stronger teams with AB testing

Jason van der Merwe

7 mins

26 Aug 2020 Article

Hypothesis-driven development

Rod Begbie

7 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Preventing process deadlock

Victor Vu

7 mins

10 Aug 2020 Article

Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams

Smruti Patel

14 mins

06 Dec 2020 Video

How to affect change without losing your job

Duretti Hirpa

23 mins

30 Apr 2019 Video

Using observability to detangle and understand production

Liz Fong-Jones

24 mins

08 Nov 2019 Video

Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects

Yvette Pegues

26 mins

27 Aug 2020 Article

A resignation can be an opportunity

Kevin Goldsmith

4 mins

22 Jan 2021 Article

Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision

Tanya Reilly

6 mins

08 Jun 2021 Article

Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want

Chris Powell

7 mins

09 Jun 2021 Article

Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design

Murat Derya Ozen

8 mins

17 Jun 2021 Article

How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution

Michael Ng

6 mins

17 Jun 2021 Article

Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions

Aaron Suggs

6 mins

26 Jul 2021 Article

Every decision creates a policy

Kevin Goldsmith

5 mins

28 Jul 2021 Article

How to break out of the thread of doom

Tanya Reilly

7 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

Outages are coming for you

Matthew Hawthorne

10 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company

Isabel Nyo

16 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

How to foster data-driven tech leadership

Carlos Coelho

7 mins

24 Aug 2021 Article

The difficulties of observability

Alex Hidalgo

8 mins

04 Apr 2022 Article

Four ways to empower your team through data

Hillary Nussbaum

5 mins

09 Jan 2023 Article

Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty

Jonathan Rende

5 mins

16 Dec 2022 Article

How to make plans for an uncertain future

Gina Trapani

4 mins

05 Dec 2022 Article

Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps

Chad Carlson

3 mins

16 Nov 2022 Article

How to build an effective code review process for your team

Rahim Mitha

5 mins

17 Oct 2022 Article

Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews

Curtis Einsmann

4 mins

03 Oct 2022 Article

What is a developer experience team?

Abi Noda

11 mins

01 Sep 2022 Article

What is the business case for observability?

Liz Fong-Jones

13 mins

15 Aug 2022 Article

Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.

Cassidy Williams

7 mins

25 Jul 2022 Article

How to level up your reporting as an engineering director

James McGill

Pat Kua

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5 mins

08 Jun 2022 Article

Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting

Bryan Helmkamp

Hillary Nussbaum

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25 May 2022 Article

How to drive a customer-focused engineering team

Tony Graham

8 mins

17 May 2022 Article

How to run a great retrospective

Nickolas Means

10 mins

19 Apr 2022 Article

Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points

Kevin Dallaire

6 mins

28 Mar 2022 Article

Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team

Addy Osmani

9 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation

Jeremy Goldsmith

16 mins

10 Feb 2022 Article

Balancing delivery speed with engineering health

Claire Tran

13 mins

02 Feb 2022 Article

Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency

Julia Ferraioli

8 mins

17 Jan 2022 Article

Five steps for making data-informed decisions

Caitlin Hudon

8 mins

29 Nov 2021 Article

A vision for a social model of open source

Julia Ferraioli

7 mins

12 Nov 2021 Article

Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO

Ariel Illouz

10 mins

28 Oct 2021 Article

Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results

Daiany Palacios

12 mins

11 Oct 2021 Article

Creating open source projects for your community

Kevin Stewart

8 mins

30 Jun 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

5 mins

19 May 2021 Article

Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision

Dawn Parzych

Douglas Ferguson

+1 more

10 mins

20 Apr 2021 Article

Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid

Thayse Onofrio

Marilene Lourenço

12 mins

14 Apr 2021 Article

Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process

Cate Huston

5 mins

29 Mar 2021 Article

How to run a great software incident post-mortem

Katie Wilde

12 mins

18 Mar 2021 Article

Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot

Najla Elmachtoub

9 mins

15 Feb 2021 Article

Estimating your way to success

Rod Begbie

5 mins

10 Nov 2020 Article

Observability at scale

Ramez Hanna

5 mins

28 Oct 2020 Article

How to avoid alert fatigue

Serhat Can

6 mins

21 Oct 2020 Article

Adopting an experimentation philosophy

Justina Nguyen

5 mins

12 Oct 2020 Article

How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind

Dalia Havens

8 mins

24 Sep 2020 Article

Engineering with empathy

Jossie Haines

6 mins

10 Aug 2020 Article

Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence

Daniel Pupius

8 mins

06 Dec 2019 Video

Strategies for making impossible decisions

Scott Triglia

26 mins

30 Apr 2019 Video

How to lead your engineering team through a period of change

Yvette Pasqua

10 mins

02 Jun 2021 Article

Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production

Ricardo Aravena

5 mins

16 Jun 2021 Article

Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy

Dawn Parzych

Douglas Ferguson

+1 more

12 mins

01 Jul 2021 Article

Preventing burnout while shipping faster

Junade Ali

5 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

The culture of process

Cate Huston

9 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics

Cody Lee

Leslie Cohn-Wein

+2 more

13 mins

26 Aug 2021 Article

Thoughts on kickstarting observability

Thom Duran

15 mins

04 Apr 2022 Article

Four ways to empower your team through data

Hillary Nussbaum

5 mins

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