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Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organizations
Emily Webber explores some common anti-patterns and the problems that those anti-patterns create, then shares some approaches and techniques to break those silos down to work together better.
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From Runtime Efficiency to Carbon Efficiency
Michal Dorko discusses Goldman Sachs’s proprietary language, Slang, a core technology responsible for booking trades, quoting prices and analysing risk, among other use cases.
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Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix
Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million.
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Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering
Charity Majors discusses how platform engineering teams are different from other engineering teams, and presents some of the ways they run into traps and other troubles.
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Cognitive Digital Twins: a New Era of Intelligent Automation
Yannis Georgas presents the building blocks of a Cognitive Digital Twin and discusses the challenges and benefits of implementing one in an organization.
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Comparing Apples and Volkswagens: the Problem with Aggregate Incident Metrics
Courtney Nash presents data from the Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) to demonstrate how aggregate incident metrics (MTTR) aren't representative of systems' resilience.
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How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow
Jelmer Borst explores the benefits and challenges of how organizations can make the shift from a traditional infrastructure team to "platform as a product".
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Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer
Sabrina Leandro discusses how to define your development journey as a staff+ engineer, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and how to define your backlog of work.
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The Interaction between the Hybrid and Remote Working Revolution and Maintaining Our Mental Health
Helen Bartimote highlights the importance of addressing mental health and well-being in remote or hybrid working environments.
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Growing Others to Grow Yourself
Audrey Troutt shares how the best way to grow in your career is to help others grow as well, but only if you learn to let go of what you are good at, and teach others to excel at those skills too.
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The Shape of Thoughts: How to Create Visual Templates to Bring Clarity, Context and Change to You and Your Teams!
Gemma Honour discusses how simple shapes can shape thinking, and break down difficult problems into something that is manageable and approachable.
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Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
Holly Cummins explains how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. She also introduces a range of practical techniques, including absurdly-simple-automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps.