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How do you create a feedback loop between commercial and engineering teams? It took us some time to do this properly, but once we figured it out, we were able to bring the next version to market, addressing the issues of the previous version.

Trust between the engineering team and business stakeholders is crucial. Asking for 6-months of non-feature work erodes that trust. Non-technical people become suspicious and think they are being tricked. The technical team must communicate with the business to educate them on the consequences of ignoring technical improvements. Start signalling possible issues when choosing feature work over technical debt early on. Don't complain behind closed doors about the bad state of the codebase because you want to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. Be honest with the non-technical stakeholders. No one should dictate technical vision and pace. The path forward is deliberate choice-making through open dialogue. Every decision about technical direction should be a collaborative effort in which all stakeholders understand and accept the tradeoffs. Thanks Charlotte Emma G. for the insightful chat! https://lnkd.in/e_9cWiWG

Why is May 3rd Performance Engineering Day? 503 is the standard HTTP response for a server that is overloaded with requests - "SERVER BUSY!" Support your local Performance Engineering Professionals today. Take them to lunch. Let them know how much you appreciate their efforts. Use some of that money saved by being able to run on a smaller platform due to implemented tuning recommendations that minimized the use of resources on your deployment servers.

Does your org need platform engineering? Join us for this panel in partnership with Harness on April 10, where engineering leaders will discuss the approach of platform engineering in practice and ask whether it really holds the key to unlocking happy and productive teams.

Learn Platform Engineering from JFrog's Story! 🐸 Ever wondered how leading companies approach platform engineering? Watch Shiran Shem Tov Melamed (DevOps Group Lead) and Yifat Matatof Yaacov (Product Manager Platform) from JFrog as they share their journey. - Learn from JFrog’s real-world challenges and innovative solutions. - Discover practical tips to enhance your developer platform. - Get inspired by how other companies are driving success through platform engineering. Watch Here - https://lnkd.in/dDXdFM_u

Engineering excellence requires the right experience & right-fit core values. Accelerating network deployments requires nailing the first part. Alex checks both boxes in a big way — and we're ecstatic he's joined the PDS Team. 🎯✅ ⚡️✅

"All the engineers [in my last project] were not in the same room, but we were in the same building. But still I wasn't aware of changes that were made. So I had to redo a lot of work because some of the subsystem teams took decisions that were not propagated to other teams." Does Louise's story sound like something you recognise as an engineer that builds complex machines? If you missed the webinar where this clip was taken from - all about iterating faster in engineering - then you can watch the full session here: https://lnkd.in/dV7S-Kz7

Struggling with incident response? Learn how to align engineering, product, and customer expectations on reliability and uptime.

As your engineering org grows, you’ll likely find that new questions and challenges will emerge around the investments in time and people your org is making. To be prepared, it’s important to establish a framework that helps your company—including your internal eng team and the business at-large—to think about productivity and how to prioritize engineering investments 🧠 We dive into best practices for communicating R&D investments to the rest of the business in our new R&D reporting guide: https://bit.ly/46DyE9H

Everyone in tech needs to catch this talk by @gergelyorosz. It nails current trends and reveals the reasons behind key engineering decisions from the past decade. https://lnkd.in/dHcTqRj8