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Open-Source Testing: Why Bug Bounty Programs Should Be Embraced, Not Feared

The growing importance of the Web3 ecosystem based on blockchains shows how important community test programs are. Some within the testing community see this trend as a threat. However, it is actually an opportunity. Bug bounties and open-source test contributions are a great tool for test teams, and there is every reason for testers to embrace this new trend rather than to fear it.

Rhian Lewis
on Jul 19, 2022
Culture & Methods

The Four P's of Pragmatically Scaling Your Engineering Organization

Scaling your organization during a period of hyper-growth is a challenge every founder wants to face. For engineering leaders, the concept of "scale" can quickly spiral out of control. There are four key areas of focus when pragmatically scaling an organization through hyper-growth: people, process, product, and platform.

Shailesh Kumar
on Jul 14, 2022
Culture & Methods

Transitioning into the Staff+ Engineer Role - from Player to Coach

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits organisations get by having leadership roles that are focused on technical enablement and support.

Nicky Wrightson
on Jul 12, 2022
DevOps

How Development Teams Can Orchestrate Their Workflow with Pipelines as Code

Infrastructure as Code was just the beginning. Configuration as Code followed shortly after – again becoming extremely commonplace and enabling organisations to scale their engineering capacity by a number of times. And in order to continuously increase the value development teams generate, Pipelines as Code is the natural consequence.

Matteo Emili
on Jul 08, 2022
Culture & Methods

How to Introduce Innovation into the DNA of 21st Century Companies

An innovation mindset is about the tiny little improvements any employee can do; hundreds of simple, low-cost- no-effort activities are in plain sight just waiting for somebody to deploy them. This article provides guidelines that can support you in changing the attitude of employees in your organization providing trust, time, space, teams, a second operating system, MVPs, and co-creation.

Almudena Rodriguez Pardo
on Jul 07, 2022
Culture & Methods

Smashing Silos: Scaling up an Energy Tech Disrupter Remotely

Being a small EnTech disruptor in a rapidly evolving market can feel a bit daunting; add in an acquisition, a rebrand and twice the team members that you had a year ago and you have a recipe for growing pains. Here is how we leaned on our strengths and pulled experience from all directions to allow for team member fulfilment during a breakneck growth spurt.

Rebecca Mahoney Andy Molineux
on Jun 29, 2022
Culture & Methods

Establishing a Scalable SRE Infrastructure Using Standardization and Short Feedback Loops

This article explores an SRE implementation where the operations team builds and runs the SRE infrastructure and the development teams build and run the services leveraging the SRE infrastructure. This SRE solution enables the software delivery organization to scale the number of services in operation without linearly scaling the number of people required to operate the services.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Jun 27, 2022
DevOps

Embracing Cloud-Native for Apache DolphinScheduler with Kubernetes: a Case Study

This article shares how Apache DolphinScheduler was updated to use a more modern, cloud-native architecture. This includes moving to Kubernetes and integrating with Argo CD and Prometheus. This improves substantially the user experience of deploying, operating, and monitoring DolphinScheduler.

Yang Dian
on Jun 24, 2022
Culture & Methods

What Kind of Coach Does Your Team Need?

Coaching is primarily client-driven; the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time. However, the team may first need to understand what coaching is before deciding what kind of coach they need, and why they need it. This article examines the role that a coach can play in establishing, maintaining and nurturing a safe space for teams to grow and achieve their goals.

Leigh Griffin Arjay Hinek
on Jun 24, 2022
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022

This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2022, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.

Steef-Jan Wiggers Matt Campbell Lena Hall Renato Losio Daniel Bryant Feynman Zhou Mostafa Radwan Shaaron A Alvares
on Jun 21, 2022
DevOps

Reproducible Development with Devcontainers

Devcontainers provide a reproducable, reusable, simplified developer experience. Get a tour of a devcontainer including how they work, how to use them most efficiently, and how they differ to deployment containers.

Avdi Grimm
on Jun 17, 2022
Culture & Methods

How to Optimize for Fast Flow Using Alignment and Autonomy: the Journey of a Large Bureaucracy

This article describes how NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration), Norway's largest bureaucracy, has achieved alignment in over 100 autonomous teams. It shows the techniques it uses to align teams with respect to technology: two descriptive techniques - the technology radar and the weekly deep dive, and two normative techniques - the technical direction and internal platforms.

Truls Jørgensen Audun Fauchald Strand
on Jun 17, 2022

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