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Getting to the Root of Engineering Improvement with DORA Core

Analysis: The Quickest Path To Halving Software Delivery Time

Where are all the laid-off software developers going?

How healthy engineering teams invest their time (i.e. how much time should devs spend on new features vs. keeping the lights on vs

How To Opt Out Of The Engineering Career Ladder

4 Engineering Slides CEOs Love

The 11 Types Of Toxic Pull Requests (According To 4.5 Million Code Branches)

"Dev burnout drastically decreases when your team actually ships things on a regular basis

TIL It takes developers 23 minutes to get back to productive coding after being interrupted by crap like emails, Slack, random asks, etc.

Are You Leading Your Dev Team in the Wrong Direction?

How To Create Compound Efficiencies In Engineering

Researchers found the top 10% of engineering orgs keep pull requests under 105 lines of code

“There should never be coding exercises in technical interviews. It favors people who have time to do them

“Businesses don’t know how to translate DORA metrics to anything they understand or care about.” Solid blog on what dev metrics actually help and impress the revenue side of companies.

Your annual reminder that being a great software engineer has nothing to do with being a great engineering manager

The No. 1 trend in developer hiring according to industry researchers: Mind-boggingly long job descriptions.

Kubernetes creator: It would never be where it is if Google hadn't allowed us to embrace the open source community

3 data points that get executives off engineers' backs... 1. Investment profile. 2. Project allocation. 3. Planning accuracy

Tech CEO: The work I did as a head of engineering was way harder and lonelier than the work I do now as the head of a company

"Skills that make you a great dev have nothing to do with being a good dev manager

TIL about programming's "Intent-Perception Gap" problem

"Developers do nothing good after 45 hours of work." Solid point to remember from the head developer at Netflix given that people are being pressed to work even longer now

TIL Reddit almost crashed multiple times during the Gamestop madness., but architecture changes made just before allowed the site to scale properly

“What businesses respect about engineering most is delivering projects on time

TIL of the term "Shipping theater," used to describe the phenomenon where dev orgs that are disconnected from how their work impacts specific business goals resort to measuring success by the amount of things shipped

"IMO, the best way to learn as a new dev or new to a team is to spend a month fixing bugs." Solid lesson from Marqeta's CTO in a broader discussions about learning code over a lifetime

Google exec on recent pod, “Engineering orgs still won't onboard people into DevOps without requiring them to learn the entire history of it

"Dev burnout drastically decreases when your team actually ships things on a regular basis

"Nothing's more damaging in programming right now than the 'shipping at all costs' mantra

“We all use products that are amazing when the company is like 5 devs, just building what makes sense

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