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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2023

The two biggest factors influencing organisational culture in early 2023 are the highly publicised and hugely disruptive layoffs across the tech industry and the emergence of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.

Shane Hastie Rebecca Parsons Rafiq Gemmail Ben Linders Shaaron A Alvares Craig Smith
on Mar 31, 2023
DevOps

Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps

Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development, simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.

Gopinath Rebala
on Mar 27, 2023
DevOps

Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability

CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow, but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.

Craig Risi
on Mar 23, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings

Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself and your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.

Gemma Honour
on Mar 22, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale. It shows how they evaluated tools to find one that would enable their teams and reinforce the cultural change that was the fundamental goal of this exercise.

Ramsay Ashby Laz Allen
on Mar 08, 2023
DevOps

Step One to Successfully Building Your Platform: Building It Together

You may feel that investing in an internal platform is a win, but the business may need more convincing. This article covers how to frame your case in a way that the business can understand and support.

Lee Ditiangkin
on Mar 07, 2023
Culture & Methods

How to Rebuild Tech Culture for Those Who Survived the Layoffs

A wave of layoffs hit the software industry and changed the definition of tech culture. This article explores the situation across multiple tech companies, and the diverse choices made to support employees who survived, and those they had to say good-bye to. It provides suggestions for those of us who have stayed behind, and how to rebuild culture in our tech teams.

Mehnaaz Abidi
on Feb 28, 2023
Culture & Methods

Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. To wrap up, he shares some of his thoughts on the role of software testers as we move towards a future of testing in the metaverse.

Tariq King
on Feb 24, 2023
Cloud

Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) as a Technique to Raise Productivity in Teams

In essence, EaaS addresses developer productivity issues by providing settings that make it simple for developers to test and mimic real-world uses of their system. This article discusses the benefits of EaaS.

Oghenevwede Emeni
on Feb 17, 2023
Culture & Methods

How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings

Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers themselves. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make. This is a journey of assuring quality of ML-based systems as a tester.

Shivani Gaba
on Feb 16, 2023
Culture & Methods

Secure Delivery: Better Workflows for Secure Systems and Pain-Free Delivery

The software delivery process has been transformed in the last decade; we’ve adopted well-understood workflows around functions such as testing, release management and operational support. In this article we'll explore the impact that security workflows have on software delivery, explain the root causes and share battle-proven techniques to show how we can make delivering secure software easier.

Chris Rutter
on Feb 10, 2023
DevOps

Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them

Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them.

Aaron Erickson
on Feb 08, 2023