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5 mins
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18 May 2022
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6 mins
11 May 2022
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Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly
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Nussbaum
Three steps for managing toil as you scale
16 mins
04 May 2022
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Three steps for managing toil as you scale
Adam
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12 mins
11 Apr 2022
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Cory
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Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals
8 mins
30 Mar 2022
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Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals
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Popovetsky
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9 mins
02 Mar 2022
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11 mins
02 Mar 2022
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Persa
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12 mins
23 Feb 2022
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How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving
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17 Feb 2022
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10 mins
07 Feb 2022
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How to drive decisions as an engineering leader
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Drasner
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9 mins
03 Feb 2022
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Esquiçato
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5 mins
01 Feb 2022
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10 mins
18 Jan 2022
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11 mins
10 Jan 2022
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How Netflix, Teachers Pay Teachers, Honeycomb, and more used observability in 2021
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15 mins
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8 mins
19 Nov 2021
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An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)
10 mins
15 Nov 2021
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An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)
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Gaikwad
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9 mins
11 Nov 2021
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13 mins
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An introduction to issue management
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Gaikwad
The rise of OpenTelemetry
10 mins
27 Oct 2021
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Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org
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6 mins
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Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide
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7 mins
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8 mins
22 Sep 2021
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8 mins
15 Jun 2021
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Joffe
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5 mins
11 Jun 2021
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Günther
The long tail of product features
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7 mins
05 May 2021
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The long tail of product features
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de Ruiter
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6 mins
28 Apr 2021
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Fournier
Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay
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11 mins
15 Apr 2021
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Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay
Manasi
Kulkarni
To build, or to buy, that is the question
7 mins
15 Apr 2021
Article
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Wouter
Van Geluwe
Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'
3 mins
12 Apr 2021
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Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'
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Spencer-Failes
The art of self-organizing engineering teams
9 mins
30 Mar 2021
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The art of self-organizing engineering teams
Tom
Sommer
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7 mins
26 Mar 2021
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Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects
Tanya
Reilly
Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it
7 mins
24 Mar 2021
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Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it
Dawn
Parzych
A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
3 mins
10 Mar 2021
Article
A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
Ted
Young
What is observability and why should you care?
6 mins
18 Feb 2021
Article
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Ted
Young
Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
7 mins
10 Feb 2021
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Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
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Huston
How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
15 mins
23 Nov 2020
Article
How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
Eric
Rabinovich
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3 mins
09 Nov 2020
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The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team
Hillary
Nussbaum
Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
8 mins
29 Oct 2020
Article
Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
Edoardo
Turelli
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9 mins
27 Oct 2020
Article
Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too
Sarah
Milstein
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4 mins
22 Oct 2020
Article
Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
Hillary
Nussbaum
How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage
12 mins
14 Oct 2020
Article
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Santiago
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6 mins
13 Oct 2020
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Tell better stories with observability
Elizabeth
Carretto
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7 mins
07 Oct 2020
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Preventing process deadlock
Victor
Vu
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7 mins
07 Oct 2020
Article
Building stronger teams with AB testing
Jason
van der Merwe
Hypothesis-driven development
7 mins
26 Aug 2020
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Hypothesis-driven development
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Begbie
Preventing process deadlock
7 mins
07 Oct 2020
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Victor
Vu
Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
14 mins
10 Aug 2020
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Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
Smruti
Patel
06 Dec 2020
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30 Apr 2019
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
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Liz
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08 Nov 2019
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Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects
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Pegues
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4 mins
27 Aug 2020
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Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision
6 mins
22 Jan 2021
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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
7 mins
08 Jun 2021
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8 mins
09 Jun 2021
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How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution
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6 mins
17 Jun 2021
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6 mins
17 Jun 2021
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Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions
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5 mins
26 Jul 2021
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7 mins
28 Jul 2021
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19 Aug 2021
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19 Aug 2021
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7 mins
19 Aug 2021
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8 mins
24 Aug 2021
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The difficulties of observability
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5 mins
04 Apr 2022
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Four ways to empower your team through data
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Nussbaum
How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
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5 mins
25 Jul 2022
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How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
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McGill
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Kua
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5 mins
08 Jun 2022
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Nussbaum
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8 mins
25 May 2022
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Tony
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10 mins
17 May 2022
Article
How to run a great retrospective
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6 mins
19 Apr 2022
Article
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Kevin
Dallaire
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9 mins
28 Mar 2022
Article
Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team
Addy
Osmani
Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
16 mins
02 Mar 2022
Article
Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
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Goldsmith
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13 mins
10 Feb 2022
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Claire
Tran
Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency
8 mins
02 Feb 2022
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Ferraioli
Five steps for making data-informed decisions
8 mins
17 Jan 2022
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Hudon
A vision for a social model of open source
7 mins
29 Nov 2021
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A vision for a social model of open source
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Ferraioli
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10 mins
12 Nov 2021
Article
Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO
Ariel
Illouz
Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results
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12 mins
28 Oct 2021
Article
Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results
Daiany
Palacios
Creating open source projects for your community
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8 mins
11 Oct 2021
Article
Creating open source projects for your community
Kevin
Stewart
Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'
5 mins
30 Jun 2021
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Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'
Ellie
Spencer-Failes
Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision
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10 mins
19 May 2021
Article
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Parzych
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Ferguson
Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid
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12 mins
20 Apr 2021
Article
Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid
Thayse
Onofrio
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Lourenço
Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
5 mins
14 Apr 2021
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Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
Cate
Huston
How to run a great software incident post-mortem
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12 mins
29 Mar 2021
Article
How to run a great software incident post-mortem
Katie
Wilde
Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot
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9 mins
18 Mar 2021
Article
Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot
Najla
Elmachtoub
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5 mins
15 Feb 2021
Article
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Rod
Begbie
Observability at scale
5 mins
10 Nov 2020
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Observability at scale
Ramez
Hanna
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6 mins
28 Oct 2020
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How to avoid alert fatigue
Serhat
Can
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5 mins
21 Oct 2020
Article
Adopting an experimentation philosophy
Justina
Nguyen
How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind
8 mins
12 Oct 2020
Article
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Havens
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6 mins
24 Sep 2020
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8 mins
10 Aug 2020
Article
Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence
Daniel
Pupius
06 Dec 2019
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Strategies for making impossible decisions
Scott
Triglia
30 Apr 2019
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Yvette
Pasqua
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5 mins
02 Jun 2021
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Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production
Ricardo
Aravena
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+1 more
12 mins
16 Jun 2021
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Dawn
Parzych
Douglas
Ferguson
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5 mins
01 Jul 2021
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Ali
The culture of process
9 mins
19 Aug 2021
Article
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Huston
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+2 more
13 mins
19 Aug 2021
Article
How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics
Cody
Lee
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Cohn-Wein
Thoughts on kickstarting observability
15 mins
26 Aug 2021
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Thoughts on kickstarting observability
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Duran
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5 mins
04 Apr 2022
Article
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Hillary
Nussbaum
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