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In other news today, Delta Lake UniForm is now Generally Available. No more data silos, interoperability FTW! UniForm allows you to use a single table format for your lakehouse, getting the top-of-the-line performance and features of Databricks and Delta Lake, but being able to access the data using *any* engine that supports *any* of the common lakehouse formats Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi.

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At the core of effective engineering leadership is the ability to stay connected with your team. This is perhaps the most challenging aspect because retaining the respect of your people is difficult unless you remain technically involved yourself. In my journey as an engineering leader, staying true to the individual contributor role that originally earned their respect has kept me close. This approach extends beyond technical expertise; it's about maintaining a deep connection with the core activities that propel product development forward at Gearflow. One of my biggest professional fears is becoming irrelevant or disconnected from my team and our work. This fear motivates me to continually reinvent and retool in response to market demands. Next month, I'll be sharing about my adventures generating synthetic data recently. And while I'm no expert when I start preparing for these talks, the process is incredibly valuable. It's less about delivering a perfect talk and more about how the preparation expands my thinking and exposes me to new capabilities. This helps me connect the dots to opportunities at Gearflow that bring real innovation to our customers. Speaking regularly holds me accountable and pushes me to learn ahead of the curve, ensuring I remain relevant and impactful day-to-day. Every talk is a journey of discovery, helping me to lead with humility, communicate clearly, and inspire a culture of innovation through a deep, technical understanding of our work.

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We published an article about all the awesome product observability features of Segment we have today and upcoming in the near future. Bookmark this if you are a Segment user!

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I just blogged about the benefits of contract-first API development. If you and your team aren't following this approach, I encourage you to read on and learn why you may be missing out on a practice that can help your team be more productive.

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As per Brandon Suponchick, CTO of Aviture, in his session at the Kansas City Developer's Conference called "The Agile Architect: Building Product From The Trenches, Not The Tower," one of the many insights he shared was the importance of testing but even more foundational is that code needs to be testable. In order to have "architecture that evolves at the same pace as your business requirements," we need to start with code that is easy to test, and tests should be holistic and stable. If code design is poor and difficult test, our ability to change systems and deploy quickly will be limited. We need to be able to ensure our code will not break through sufficient tests. This includes unit tests. #KCDC #KCDC2024

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I’m proud to share a recent article from myself and Frances Wong: "Less is more: How HashiCorp removed 80% of its dashboards to drive adoption through Sigma." This program dramatically simplified our data processes, enhancing both access and engagement. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g-SvDrK9 What We Learned: Simplification Enhances Engagement: Cutting down on rarely used dashboards made our remaining resources more effective and user-friendly. Tech for Better Access: Sigma’s intuitive features and Python integration have revolutionized how we interact with data, making it a seamless part of our daily operations. This experience has reinforced a crucial lesson, simplicity drives usage. I’m eager to explore how these insights can transform data analytics and engineering across our industry. What are your thoughts? Could your organization benefit from a similar approach? #DataAnalytics #Sigma #HashiCorp

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🌟 Attention Engineering Managers and Technical Leaders! 🌟 In just two weeks, on June 28th at 10 AM PDT, I’m excited to host an interactive roundtable on Feature Flags and Delivery in conjunction with ELC! 🚀 Why Attend? This is a collaborative discussion where your expertise and curiosity are key! Whether you're experienced or eager to learn, your contributions are invaluable. 🔍 Discussion Points: - Decoupling Processes - Boosting Team Efficiency - Optimizing Feature Delivery - Tracking Platform Usage Expect rich conversations on best practices, unique implementations, methodologies, and the latest tools enhancing feature flagging and delivery. Who Should Join? - Engineering Managers - Technical Leads - DevOps Engineers - Software Developers This roundtable is your chance to: - Share your experiences - Gain new insights - Network with peers - Discover practical recommendations RSVP Now and mark your calendars for June 28th at 10 AM PDT! Let’s collaborate and elevate our skills together! #EngineeringManagement #TechLeaders #FeatureFlags #DevOps #SoftwareDevelopment #TeamEfficiency #TechRoundtable

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Struggling to manage Kafka configuration in large engineering ecosystems/environments? Things are breaking up, and you can't roll back or save the situation quickly? Our own Software Architect, Nizan Rosh, just published an article in the #LSports engineering blog discussing how we solved these problems with a super simple yet elegant #GitOps tool. We also published it as an #opensource to top it up with a cherry!

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New blog post: The little things that got me into stream processing (https://lnkd.in/gU7Ba5Ym)

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Just one month until my talk at KCDC: "Testcontainers: The Secret Weapon of Modern Software Development". Come listen and learn some cool things about automated testing with Containers! https://kcdc.info #KCDC #Testcontainers #Docker

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Ticket velocity isn't the *only* measure of an engineering team's effectiveness. At a high level, the best engineering organizations can predictably deliver against the priorities set forth by the business. That involves proper monitoring (through metrics) and coaching by effective managers. Here's a few non-velocity metrics I use to measure my organization: - Tenure of the team. - Platform uptime. - Number of critical issues in the last 8wks. - Automated code coverage percentages. - *Employee* vs customer detected bugs. - Number of requirements missed during project planning. Read more about my leadership style here: https://lnkd.in/geP2m7DJ #metrics #engineeringeffectiveness #team #leadership #software #tech #startup #management #dora #space #agile #projectmanagement #podcast

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We now have auto-generated documentation for our #protobuf and #grpc API's at LittleHorse! For most day-to-day activities, such as building a WfSpec or executing TaskRun's, you won't actually need to use our protobuf API directly. However, at LittleHorse we believe in empowering engineers to use either high-level abstractions or low-level nuts and bolts as they please, so we expose a GRPC API which is intimately related to the internals of LittleHorse. If you're curious about it, check out the documentation! You can find it here: https://lnkd.in/gBqBqKKr And side note, below is the most tricky line of code(?) I've ever written. It's the part that generates the pretty docs for you: https://lnkd.in/gZwDMfVp

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It's been very cool watching this go from idea to reality. I'm glad to see this new tool making its way to customers! Check out the blog to see how you can use it to experiment with #RAG applications using #Elasticsearch

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Learn how to build a custom benchmarking harness in Rust https://lnkd.in/eG9MRdzv

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If you work in application modernization then you need to see this free webinar. Maryna Bor has a complete and robust view of the landscape and will take you through it step by step.

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If you ever wanted a TL;DR on why Axiom prefers to store all your events rather than sample whilst enabling just in time query, all at a super low cost, then this podcast is for you! Listen to Neil Jagdish Patel as he speeds through a shorter history of Axiom and how the path we are on evolved and emerged from customer feedback. We are `tooling around` for your faster, better and cheaper event storage needs. So if you like what Neil says then please check us out, and give Axiom a whirl for your o11y and analytics use cases. And if you are attending Monitorama this year please check us out and say hi! #observability #events #eventstore #streaming #o11y #cloud #monitorama

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Oso makes this look easy. Historically you either put all of your data into your auth system which is easy, but creates availability and privacy issues, or else you distribute your data which was scalable and secure, but leads to spaghetti authorization logic and complexity for developers. Such a nice balance here. The CAP theorem of authorization?!

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We released a new update of our Visual Studio Code Java extension. Go try it! Bunch of new improvements and already supporting JDK 23 Early Access builds as the extension is directly leveraging javac. https://lnkd.in/g8BKsNjS #java #IDE #OpenJDK #VSCode

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