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Why Software Engineering Governance Matters: Reducing Risk without Slowing down
Software engineering governance helps teams make decisions, Sarah Wells said at Goto Copenhagen. She argued it should support value delivery, not hinder it. Poor governance slows progress and can increase costs. A technical strategy with a radar can help teams to make better decisions, and aligning with DORA capabilities can boost their performance.
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DevGreenOps: How to Design Sustainable Digital Services
DevGreenOps, also known as DevSusOps, is an extension of the DevOps approach, in which environmental sustainability considerations are integrated into every step of the DevOps cycle, Jochen Joswig said in his talk at OOP Conference. Applying transparency, minimalism, efficiency, and awareness helps us to design sustainable digital services.
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Green IT: How to Reduce IT’s Environmental Footprint
Green IT focuses on reducing IT’s environmental footprint, by rethinking how you build, deploy, and power IT systems. At QCon London, Ludi Akue presented how her team did a lifecycle assessment, set a 10% emissions reduction goal, simplified architecture, and optimized frontends, to align with climate goals.
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How to Develop Your Skills to Become a Principal Engineer
Becoming a principal engineer requires more than technical skill, it’s about influence, communication, and strategy. Success means enabling teams by shaping culture, Sophie Weston said. She suggested developing deep skills in multiple domains, with collaborative skills. Skills from life outside work, like sports, volunteering, or gaming, can add valuable perspective and build leadership potential.
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Using Social Drivers to Improve Software Engineering Team Performance
According to Lizzie Matusov, technical drivers like velocity offer an incomplete view of team performance. Social drivers—trust, autonomy, purpose, and psychological safety—provide a fuller picture and reveal important areas of opportunity for improvement. She spoke about the social drivers behind high-performing engineering teams at QCon San Francisco.
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How Meta is Using a New Metric for Developers: Diff Authoring Time
Diff Authoring Time (DAT). DAT is a new metric developed by engineers at Meta to measure the duration required for developers to submit changes, known as "diffs," to the codebase. By tracking the time from the initiation of a code change to its submission, DAT offers insights into the efficiency of the development process and helps identify areas for improvement.
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Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS
Stripe replaced its observability platform, which used a third-party vendor solution, with a new architecture utilizing managed services on AWS. The company made the move due to scalability limits, reliability issues, and increasing costs while transitioning to microservices. The migration involved dual-writing metrics, translating assets, validation, and user training.
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Using DORA for Sustainable Engineering Performance Improvement
DORA can help to drive sustainable change, depending on how it is used by teams and the way it is supported in a company. According to Carlo Beschi, getting good data for the DORA keys can be challenging. Teams can use DORA reports for continuous improvement by analysing the data and taking actions.
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Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about using custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure. Server utilisation and performance issues made scaling applications to an appropriate size and number of replicas challenging, and Kuberenetes' HPA scaling alone didn't solve these issues. So Deezer turned to custom metrics.
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Measuring and Reducing the Environmental Impact of Software
Software applications often manage big amounts of data; most of them are internet-based applications, and incorporate artificial intelligence. According to Coral Calero, these three aspects improve the capabilities and functionalities provided by software but they have also increased the amount of energy needed. We need to measure energy consumption of software to control its environmental impact.
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Apache Skywalking v10: Application Performance Monitoring Tool for Distributed Systems
The Apache Software Foundation has released version 10 of Apache SkyWalking, an open-source observability platform designed to provide comprehensive monitoring, tracing, and analytics for distributed systems. It features many new features and enhancements...
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Fostering Healthy Tech Teams in a DevOps World
Building healthy DevOps tech teams that are responsible for a broad area can be challenging. To measure the success of your team, several frameworks provide metrics indicating team health. Psychological safety matters for healthy teams to ensure each software engineer brings their own lived experiences to build better products and that they feel safe to do so.
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Booking.com Doubles Delivery Performance Using DORA Metrics and Micro Frontends
The team in Booking.com’s fintech business unit implemented a series of improvements across the backend and the frontend of its platform and was able to double the delivery performance, as measured by DORA metrics. Additionally, the Micro Frontends (MFE) pattern was used to break up the monolithic FE application into multiple decomposed apps that could be deployed separately.
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State of FinOps 2024: Reducing Waste and Embracing AI
In the 2024 State of FinOps survey, Engineering Enablement has been replaced by a focus on cost and waste reduction. This shows maturity of FinOps as the persona getting the most value from FinOps remains the engineer. The confluence of AI and FinOps observability aims to optimise cloud spend visibility and improve insights into early AI experimentation, as well as sustainability goals.
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Grafana v10.3: Visualizations, Alerting, Management and Log Analysis Improvements
Grafana 10.3 introduces a range of enhancements spanning visualization, instance management, alerting, and log analysis. These upgrades include improved tooltips and zoom functionality for data navigation, alongside features for tracking metric changes and visualizing system health. Additionally, improvements in alerting and log analysis are also available.