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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. When interviewing software engineers, I always provide at-home coding tests which focus on design.

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10 talks to look for at the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London

O'Reilly Software

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Concluding thoughts.