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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. I love pair programming and mobbing because every small decision is debated and challenged. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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Analyzing Software Failure on the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter

cdemi

The purpose of this probe was to study the Mars climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. The total cost of this mission was $327.6 On September 23, 1999 at 09:00:46 UTC, the space probe began this planned orbital manoeuvre.

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MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

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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.

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Visualising Sociotechnical Architecture with DDD and Team Topologies

Strategic Tech

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. A clear warning sign.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

The engineering organisation described may not work for you because of a team of 8-10 people is still a very big overhead. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? Probably yes.

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Re-Architecting the Video Gatekeeper

The Netflix TechBlog

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering delivering a large amount of business value in the process.

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