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Articles from devinterrupted.substack.com

Analysis: The Quickest Path To Halving Software Delivery Time (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-11-2

Where are all the laid-off software developers going? (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-10-26 Programmer

How healthy engineering teams invest their time (i.e. how much time should devs spend on new features vs. keeping the lights on vs. improving developer experience). (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-10-9

The 11 Types Of Toxic Pull Requests (According To 4.5 Million Code Branches) (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-9-1

Are You Leading Your Dev Team in the Wrong Direction? (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-8-15

How To Create Compound Efficiencies In Engineering (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-8-12

TIL It takes developers 23 minutes to get back to productive coding after being interrupted by crap like emails, Slack, random asks, etc. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-8-7 Programmer Slack

"Dev burnout drastically decreases when your team actually ships things on a regular basis. Burnout primarily comes from toil, rework and never seeing the end of projects." This was by far the the best lesson I learned this year and finally tracked down the the talk it was from. Hope it helps. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-8-2

How To Create Compound Efficiencies In Engineering (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-7-29

“There should never be coding exercises in technical interviews. It favors people who have time to do them. Disfavors people with FT jobs and families. Plus, your job won't have people over your shoulder watching you code.” My favorite hot take from a panel on 'Treating Devs Like Human Beings.' (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-7-18

Researchers found the top 10% of engineering orgs keep pull requests under 105 lines of code. They analyzed 2,000 dev teams and also said a rework rate under 8% and a daily+ deployment frequency put developer teams into the "elite" level. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-7-18 Programmer

DORA Metrics: We've Been Using Them Wrong (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-6-27

Study: 70% of dev teams saw cycle times improve 40% once they got visibility into how much time they were spending on coding, PR pickup time, code reviews, and deploy time. Researchers compared it to the organic improvements you see losing weight when you start watching what you eat. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-6-24

Never use Agile Velocity to compare developer teams' productivity and other rules to stop Agile from ruining your organization (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-6-17 Agile Programmer

“Businesses don't know how to translate DORA metrics to anything they understand or care about.” Solid blog on what dev metrics actually help and impress the revenue side of companies. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-6-9

Your annual reminder that being a great software engineer has nothing to do with being a great engineering manager (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-6-2

"In the last year [title inflation] has gone through crazy uptick. It's tied to companies trying to lure and attract candidates because it's really hard to hire in tech." Good takeaway from a conversation on 2023 dev hiring trends. They single out the term "Principal Engineer" going to junior devs. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-5-12

TIL about programming's "Intent-Perception Gap" problem. For example, when a CTO or manager casually suggests something to their developers they take it as a new work commandment or direction for their team. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-4-6 Programmer programming

"Developers do nothing good after 45 hours of work." Solid point to remember from the head developer at Netflix given that people are being pressed to work even longer now. Stems from a larger discussion on stupid things orgs do to kill productivity. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-3-27 Programmer Netflix

“Across dev orgs, there's a much-overdue shift in 2023 away from growth to properly resourcing what you're already doing well.” Optimistic insight coming out of a larger talk on the science of allocating dev resources. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-3-8

TIL Reddit almost crashed multiple times during the Gamestop madness., but architecture changes made just before allowed the site to scale properly. Came from a conversation with the woman who is the "Internet Incident Librarian." Check the time stamp 'near misses' for full story. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-3-6 Architecture Reddit

TIL of the term "Shipping theater," used to describe the phenomenon where dev orgs that are disconnected from how their work impacts specific business goals resort to measuring success by the amount of things shipped. Came up in a panel on "Connecting your dev's work to the business." (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-1-25

"IMO, the best way to learn as a new dev or new to a team is to spend a month fixing bugs." Solid lesson from Marqeta's CTO in a broader discussions about learning code over a lifetime. Actually going to use bug-fix thing at work starting tomorrow. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-1-19

Google exec on recent pod, “Engineering orgs still won't onboard people into DevOps without requiring them to learn the entire history of it. What a sobering indictment of our industry.” Makes a solid case that new cloud engineers should be judged solely on skills gaps, not experience gaps. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-1-18 DevOps Cloud Google

Google's top cloud engineer says companies requiring devs to have years of experience in DevOps before becoming a cloud engineer is BS. "They claim cloud isn't an entry level job. If you want to do DevOps, go get some experience with older forms of it first." Funny interview. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2023-1-4 DevOps Cloud Google Interview

"Dev burnout drastically decreases when your team actually ships things on a regular basis. Burnout primarily comes from toil, rework and never seeing the end of projects." This was by far the the best lesson I learned this year and finally tracked down the the talk it was from. Hope it helps. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-28

“We all use products that are amazing when the company is like 5 devs, just building what makes sense. They grow & through failures of leadership, they end up with bloated product teams that don't understand the work of developers." Former GitHub VP pulling no punches in recent pod on state of tech (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-21 Programmer GitHub

“There should never be coding exercises in technical interviews. It favors people who have time to do them. Disfavors people with FT jobs and families. Plus, you don't actually code with someone watching you.” My favorite hot take from a panel on 'Treating Devs Like Human Beings.' (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-13

TIL C# ranks in the top 3 best programming languages for code-review times (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-8 C# programming

Study: After moving into management, the average Engineering Manager's focus time drops by 9+ hours due to an additional 7 hours per week in meetings (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-6

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