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Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager
To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.
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How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking
This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers. Whether you're an established Staff+ engineer or someone with aspirations to grow into this role, this article offers the tools, perspectives, and insights you need to navigate your journey to greater influence and impact.
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Developer Joy: a Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity
In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, they explain how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break.
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Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x
In this article, Carlos Arguelles elaborates on how engineering productivity needs a shift as organizations scale. He shares examples from his time at Google and Amazon, explaining how some architectural decisions made at these companies shaped the way they develop software. Engineering productivity investments depend on inflection points, scale, controls, data, and tooling choices.
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How to Scale Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.
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From Code to Charisma: Emotional Mastery for Tech Leaders
In tech, leadership is about more than managing projects—it's about influencing teams and driving collaboration. This article explores how understanding the brain’s states—rational, emotional, and survival—can enhance decision-making and innovation. By mastering emotional regulation, trust, and psychological safety, leaders can empower teams to thrive and unlock their full potential.
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Legacy Modernization: Architecting Real-Time Systems around a Mainframe
At its heart, our transformation journey is about breaking dependencies at multiple levels. Many enterprises face similar challenges with legacy systems: tightly coupled architectures that are difficult to scale, change, or maintain. For us at National Grid, the solution came through four complementary paradigms that worked together to enable different forms of decoupling.
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Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
Rashmi Venugopal explores the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation. Rashmi discusses various strategies to tackle such technical renovation initiatives, like evolutionary architecture, deprecation-driven development, and intentional organization design.
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Virtual Panel: Increasing Engineering Productivity, Develop Software Fast and in a Sustainable Way
Companies need to balance between rapid feature development and long-term product sustainability. Engineers are taking on more left-shifted, cognitive load as their features intersect with user privacy, security, accessibility, and regulations. We'll discuss approaches, philosophies, and techniques that companies and products applied to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development.
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Prompt Engineering: Challenges, Strengths, and Its Place in Software Development's Future
Prompt engineering is evolving as a crucial skill that bridges AI communication and programming, blending creativity and precision to shape the future of software development. The future of software development might involve a synergistic blend of both approaches. Prompt engineering can accelerate prototyping and enhance interactivity, while traditional programming ensures robustness.
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Eclipse LMOS: Launching AI Agents across Europe at Breakneck Speed
In this talk, the authors share some of our company’s key learnings in developing customer-facing LLM-powered applications deployed across Europe. They used multi-agent architecture and systems design to create an open-source set of tools, a framework, and a full-fledged platform to accelerate the development of AI agents. This is a summary of a presentation from InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024.
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Building Trust in AI: Security and Risks in Highly Regulated Industries
Explore the transformative power of responsible AI across industries, emphasizing security, MLOps, and compliance. As AI drives innovation—from predicting hurricanes to enhancing legal workflows—organizations must prioritize ethical practices, transparency, and robust governance to safeguard sensitive data while navigating an evolving regulatory landscape.