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Delivering Value While behind Enemy Lines
Matt Barrett talks about how his team at Adaptive Financial Consulting manages to get things done in the face of huge cultural resistance while maintaining their own engineering culture.
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The Holistic Detective Hunt for Great Tech Culture
Doug Talbot talks about the key elements of the organizational complexity puzzle, why it’s so important, what patterns to choose from, what changes they have driven in Ocado Technology, etc.
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Evolving the Engineering Culture @Criteo
Manu Cupcic shares Criteo’s definition of engineering culture, describing its key elements, and elaborating on how it evolved over time.
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Tips for Creating a More Equal Workplace
Kate Heddleston talks about what institutional bias is, why it’s a problem, and how it manifests in the workplace.
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Rebuilding the Monolith with Composable Apps
Ian Thomas discusses breaking down monoliths into composable parts and understanding value from the point of the customer, showing examples of functional programming styles for building front-end apps
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Full-Scale Elm in Production
Richard Feldman introduces Elm, how it works, what differentiates it from the other front-end technologies, and gives practical advice for introducing it to an existing JavaScript codebase.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless JavaScript
Steve Faulkner discusses Bustle's entire serverless stack. He talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, sharing real numbers from production systems.
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A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt
Adam Tornhill offers an overview of techniques that help uncover both problematic code and the social dimension of the teams that build software. He illustrates each point with a case study.
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Refactoring Mount Doom - Tackling Legacy Code
Franziska Sauerwein discusses how to refactor code for the right reasons and the right methods to use for time efficiently.
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Using Quality Views to Tackle Tech Debt @Tesla
Colin Breck discusses how quality views may help improve communication in support of tackling technical debt in an organization.
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Strategic Code Deletion
Michael Feathers describes techniques that generate more certainty around assessments of feature liveness, and strategies that can be used to remove code that does not have high value
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In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan
Yao Yue introduces Pelikan - a framework to implement distributed caches such as Memcached and Redis. She discusses the system aspects that are important to the performance of such services.