Engineering Culture
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Podcast Overview
<p>The biggest tech companies of the last twenty years are unsurpassed by those from any other industry. <strong>So how do they work? </strong>Given it's all just ones and zeros, how do they build these software products that take one hundred, one thousand, even tens of thousands of software engineers? Wonder no more. <strong>The Engineering Culture podcast is here to tell you all about it.</strong></p><br><p>How to be a software engineer in a modern tech company. How to execute building a software product that people cannot do without: delivery, organisation, processes, ways of working, and their consequences. All the stuff that people who love tech sometimes forget about, but are the root causes behind every job left in frustration, every product that failed to make it.</p><br><p>If this sounds like your cup of tea, excellent! Pull up a chair, we've got lots to share with you.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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January 7, 2024
Are you delivering?
<p>Your software could be the best in the world, but if you cannot get it in the hands of your users, failure beckons. Learn about how to deliver software efficiently with an analogy involving tea.</p><br><p><br></p><h3>Recommended Resources</h3><p>Continuous Integration</p><ul><li>AWS Codepipeline https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/</li><li>Buddy https://buddy.works/</li><li>GitHub Actions https://docs.github.com/en/actions</li><li>GitLab CI https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/</li><li>Harness https://www.harness.io/</li><li>Semaphore CI https://semaphoreci.com/</li><li>Spinnaker https://spinnaker.io/</li></ul><p><br></p><p>CI quality tools</p><ul><li>SonarQube https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/</li><li>Snyk https://snyk.io/</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Don't just take my word for it! Serious tech companies sharing how continuous delivery works for them.</p><ul><li>Monzo https://monzo.com/blog/2022/05/16/how-we-deploy-to-production-over-100-times-a-day</li><li>Netflix https://netflixtechblog.com/global-continuous-delivery-with-spinnaker-2a6896c23ba7</li><li>Meta "We decided to move facebook.com to a quasi-continuous 'push from master' system in April 2016" https://engineering.fb.com/2017/08/31/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/</li><li>Squeaky https://squeaky.ai/blog/development/why-we-dont-use-a-staging-environment/</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Recommended Books</h3><ul><li>Continuous Delivery by Humble, Farley | See also https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContinuousDelivery.html</li><li>Software Engineering at Google curated by Winters, Manshreck, Wright | Specifically Chapter 24: Continuous Delivery by Narayan, Jones, Shipe, Owens</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links to items mentioned in the episode</h3><ul><li>DORA Metrics https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance</li><li>Test Pyramid https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html</li><li>Marginal Gains https://www.meaningfulhq.com/marginal-gains.html</li></ul><p><br></p><br><p>Thanks for listening to the Engineering Culture podcast. We have no date in place for when more episodes will be available, but if you'd like to get in touch, please drop us an email to ec@lifebeyondfife.com</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
January 7, 2024
Are you useful?
<p>The final installment of the metadata trilogy. Yes, a secret trilogy of system monitoring! We share why engineers need to work closely with their colleagues in product, data science, design, marketing, support, and finance, because today... every company is a tech company.</p><br><p><br></p><h3>Recommended Resources</h3><p>Data Engineering</p><ul><li>Apache Spark for MapReduce operations on Big Data https://spark.apache.org/</li><li>Apache Kafka for data streaming https://kafka.apache.org/</li><li>Amazon Kinesis for data streaming in AWS https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Product Management Concepts</p><ul><li>AARRR aka Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics https://fourweekmba.com/pirate-metrics/</li><li>Diffusion of Innovations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Analytics</p><ul><li>Adobe Analytics https://business.adobe.com/products/analytics/adobe-analytics.html</li><li>Google Marketing Platform (formerly Google Analytics) https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/</li><li>Mixpanel https://mixpanel.com/</li><li>Amplitude https://amplitude.com/</li></ul><p><br></p><p>BI (Business Intelligence)</p><ul><li>Microsoft Power BI https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/products/power-bi</li><li>Tableau https://www.tableau.com/</li><li>Sisense https://www.sisense.com/</li><li>Snowflake https://www.snowflake.com/</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Columnar data stores (OLAP, not OLTP)</p><ul><li>BigQuery https://cloud.google.com/bigquery</li><li>Redshift https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/</li></ul><p><br></p><p>A/B Testing</p><ul><li>LaunchDarkly https://launchdarkly.com/</li><li>Optimizely https://www.optimizely.com/</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Recommended Books</h3><ul><li>Inspired by Marty Cagan | Best practices and strategies for creating successful tech products. Similar in goal and approach to this podcast, but from the product point of view, rather than engineering</li><li>The Lean Startup by Eric Ries | Creating a new tech product under conditions of extreme uncertainty, by "validated learning"</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links to items mentioned in the episode</h3><ul><li>Data Science at the Command Line by Janssens | A good overview of some of the janitorial side of Data Science</li><li>An example of a paid marketing strategy, which could be measured using pirate metrics (AARRR). A family video clip, purchased by a company, for social media brand viral marketing https://twitter.com/Skyscanner/status/852889390661726208</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Final aside</h3><ul><li>If like me, you hate the idea of every single web interaction you perform being monitored for the purposes of creating better marketing profiles, to maximise cash extraction... you can take small steps to push back. Run Pi-hole as your local DNS proxy https://pi-hole.net/</li></ul><p><br></p><br><p>Thanks for listening to the Engineering Culture podcast. We have no date in place for when more episodes will be available, but if you'd like to get in touch, please drop us an email to ec@lifebeyondfife.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
January 7, 2024
Are you available?
<p>Good teams know what service availability is in general. Great teams know what their service availability is specifically. Excellent teams, however, use their service availability budget to drive engineering decision making.</p><p><br></p><h3>Recommended Resources</h3><p>Service Level Objectives</p><ul><li>Datadog Service Level Objectives https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/service_level_objectives/</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Recommended Books</h3><ul><li>Site Reliability Engineering by Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy | Foundational concepts for systems engineers, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links to items mentioned in the episode</h3><ul><li>Alerting on SLOs https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/</li><li>Preventing the Collapse of Civilization by Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko</li><li>Z Notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Jonathan Blow's games are wonderfully made, and highly addictive</p><ul><li>Braid https://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/Braid/</li><li>The Witness https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/</li></ul><p><br></p><br><p>Thanks for listening to the Engineering Culture podcast. We have no date in place for when more episodes will be available, but if you'd like to get in touch, please drop us an email to ec@lifebeyondfife.com</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>The biggest tech companies of the last twenty years are unsurpassed by those from any other industry. <strong>So how do they work? </strong>Given it's all just ones and zeros, how do they build these software products that take one hundred, one thousand, even tens of thousands of software engineers? Wonder no more. <strong>The Engineering Culture podcast is here to tell you all about it.</strong></p><br><p>How to be a software engineer in a modern tech company. How to execute building a software product that people cannot do without: delivery, organisation, processes, ways of working, and their consequences. All the stuff that people who love tech sometimes forget about, but are the root causes behind every job left in frustration, every product that failed to make it.</p><br><p>If this sounds like your cup of tea, excellent! Pull up a chair, we've got lots to share with you.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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