Context switching strategies to preserve your focus
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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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LeadDev editor’s picks: December 2022
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Navigating complexity as an engineering leader
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Why traditional observability tools aren't cutting it anymore
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How to reduce stress for on-call engineering teams
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Bringing together a social model of open source
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How to create sustainable on-call rotations
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How to create sustainable on-call rotations
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Why the most advanced technology solution isn’t always the correct one
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Born-left security: The new approach taking over shift-left
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How to communicate the state of your open source project
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How to communicate the state of your open source project
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How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles
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Four engineering leadership trends you need to know
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Why on-call pain is a sociotechnical problem
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Why on-call pain is a sociotechnical problem
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Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together
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Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together
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Reporting to the board as an engineering leader: Secrets to success
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Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale
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Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale
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What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?
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What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?
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Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly
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Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly
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Three steps for managing toil as you scale
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Three steps for managing toil as you scale
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How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity
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How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity
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Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals
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Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals
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Who is responsible for open source security?
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Who is responsible for open source security?
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Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team
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Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team
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How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving
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How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving
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Running your first internal hackathon
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How to drive decisions as an engineering leader
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How to drive decisions as an engineering leader
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Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs
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Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs
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Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?
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Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?
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Getting big changes implemented at the staff+ level
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How to cultivate a great engineering process
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How to cultivate a great engineering process
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How Netflix, Teachers Pay Teachers, Honeycomb, and more used observability in 2021
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Delegation is a superpower
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Delegation is a superpower
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An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)
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An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)
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Learnings from ‘The engineering leader’s guide to data-driven leadership’
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An introduction to issue management
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An introduction to issue management
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The rise of OpenTelemetry
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The rise of OpenTelemetry
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Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org
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Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org
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Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide
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Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide
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How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups
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How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups
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The search for the best solution: third party or open source?
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The search for the best solution: third party or open source?
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140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
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140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
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The long tail of product features
05 May 2021
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The long tail of product features
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Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day
28 Apr 2021
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Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day
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Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay
15 Apr 2021
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Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay
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To build, or to buy, that is the question
15 Apr 2021
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To build, or to buy, that is the question
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Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'
12 Apr 2021
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Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'
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The art of self-organizing engineering teams
30 Mar 2021
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The art of self-organizing engineering teams
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Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects
26 Mar 2021
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Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects
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Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it
24 Mar 2021
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Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it
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A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
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A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
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What is observability and why should you care?
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What is observability and why should you care?
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Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
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Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
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How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
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How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
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The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team
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The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team
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Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
29 Oct 2020
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Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
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Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too
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Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too
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Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
22 Oct 2020
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Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
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How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage
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How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage
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Tell better stories with observability
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Tell better stories with observability
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Preventing process deadlock
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Preventing process deadlock
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Building stronger teams with AB testing
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Building stronger teams with AB testing
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Hypothesis-driven development
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Hypothesis-driven development
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Preventing process deadlock
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Preventing process deadlock
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Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
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Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
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How to affect change without losing your job
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
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Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects
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A resignation can be an opportunity
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A resignation can be an opportunity
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Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision
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Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision
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Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want
08 Jun 2021
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Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want
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Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design
09 Jun 2021
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Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design
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How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution
17 Jun 2021
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How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution
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Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions
17 Jun 2021
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Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions
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Every decision creates a policy
26 Jul 2021
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Every decision creates a policy
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How to break out of the thread of doom
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How to break out of the thread of doom
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Outages are coming for you
19 Aug 2021
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Outages are coming for you
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Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company
19 Aug 2021
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Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company
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How to foster data-driven tech leadership
19 Aug 2021
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How to foster data-driven tech leadership
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The difficulties of observability
24 Aug 2021
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The difficulties of observability
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Four ways to empower your team through data
04 Apr 2022
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Four ways to empower your team through data
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Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty
09 Jan 2023
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Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty
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How to make plans for an uncertain future
16 Dec 2022
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How to make plans for an uncertain future
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Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps
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Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps
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How to build an effective code review process for your team
16 Nov 2022
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How to build an effective code review process for your team
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Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews
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Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews
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What is a developer experience team?
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What is a developer experience team?
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What is the business case for observability?
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What is the business case for observability?
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Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.
15 Aug 2022
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Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.
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How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
25 Jul 2022
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How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
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Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting
08 Jun 2022
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Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting
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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team
25 May 2022
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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team
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How to run a great retrospective
17 May 2022
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How to run a great retrospective
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Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points
19 Apr 2022
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Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points
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Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team
28 Mar 2022
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Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team
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Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
02 Mar 2022
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Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
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Balancing delivery speed with engineering health
10 Feb 2022
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Balancing delivery speed with engineering health
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Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency
02 Feb 2022
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Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency
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Five steps for making data-informed decisions
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Five steps for making data-informed decisions
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A vision for a social model of open source
29 Nov 2021
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A vision for a social model of open source
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Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO
12 Nov 2021
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Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO
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Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results
28 Oct 2021
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Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results
12 mins
Creating open source projects for your community
11 Oct 2021
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Creating open source projects for your community
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Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'
30 Jun 2021
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Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'
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Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision
19 May 2021
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Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision
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Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid
20 Apr 2021
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Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid
12 mins
Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
14 Apr 2021
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Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
5 mins
How to run a great software incident post-mortem
29 Mar 2021
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How to run a great software incident post-mortem
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Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot
18 Mar 2021
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Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot
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Estimating your way to success
15 Feb 2021
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Estimating your way to success
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Observability at scale
10 Nov 2020
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Observability at scale
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How to avoid alert fatigue
28 Oct 2020
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How to avoid alert fatigue
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Adopting an experimentation philosophy
21 Oct 2020
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Adopting an experimentation philosophy
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How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind
12 Oct 2020
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How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind
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Engineering with empathy
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Engineering with empathy
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Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence
10 Aug 2020
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Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence
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06 Dec 2019
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Strategies for making impossible decisions
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How to lead your engineering team through a period of change
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Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production
02 Jun 2021
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Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production
5 mins
Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy
16 Jun 2021
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Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy
12 mins
Preventing burnout while shipping faster
01 Jul 2021
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Preventing burnout while shipping faster
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The culture of process
19 Aug 2021
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The culture of process
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How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics
19 Aug 2021
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How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics
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Thoughts on kickstarting observability
26 Aug 2021
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Thoughts on kickstarting observability
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Four ways to empower your team through data
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