Developers are using Generative AI to crank out code faster than ever before, but somehow, the metrics aren’t showing an overall productivity improvement. So what’s going on?

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The identity collapse hiding inside the job market crisis

And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions A single person with a serious AI habit may chew through enough electricity each day to keep a microwave running for more than three hours. And the actual toll may even be worse, as so many companies keep details about their AI models secret.…

Eric Evans’ Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has shaped software development practices for over 20 years, providing a rich toolkit for tackling complex domain…

Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering...

People often struggle to describe who does what. Getting it wrong can mean that things fall through the cracks, or it becomes so descriptive that it hinders work. Articulating roles and responsibil...

In this update to her 2018 post, Charity Majors explains how much teams should spend when it comes to observability costs.

For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…

When You Don't Trust Your People, That's THE Problem You Must Fix

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

A weekly round up of blog posts I've been reading

A weekly round up of blog posts I've been reading

Patterns from our colleagues

A guest article by Charity Majors

Most engineering organizations I’ve worked in or led have tracked some form of engineering metrics. These range from simple metrics like…

In this article I explore what cycle time is and why it's a useful measure to point to opportunities to improve.

At Bloom & Wild, peak seasons like Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and Christmas aren’t just busy periods, they’re mission-critical moments…

There’s a right and wrong way to proceed. Here’s how to increase the chances your leader listens and takes action--while reducing the chance they feel threatened.

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