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The Engineering Leadership Crisis Nobody Talks About 🚨 #EngineeringLeadership #SoftwareEngineering #PlatformEngineering #TechLeadership #Microservices #SRE

Modern engineering teams are collapsing under platform complexity, AI chaos, organizational scaling failures, and unreliable architectures. This deep technical leadership guide explains how elite engineering leaders manage platform rewrites, reliability crises, organizational chaos, and large-scale modernization without destroying delivery velocity. #SoftwareArchitecture #EngineeringManagement #DevOps #CloudComputing #Leadership

https://atozofsoftwareengineering.blog/2026/05/19/the-engineering-leadership-crisis-nobody-talks-about-%f0%9f%9a%a8-engineeringleadership-softwareengineering-platformengineering-techleadership-microservices-sre/

InfoQ 5d ago

How do we bring the joy back to #SoftwareDevelopment in the #AIEra?

In this #InfoQ #podcast, Michael Parker explores “The AI Joy Gap” - why some developers are thriving while others are burning out.

He dives into:
➡️ The “Factory Architect”: orchestrating AI agents instead of writing code directly
➡️ Hype vs. Reality: the cultural divide between AI optimism and the reality of wrestling with legacy codebases

🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4dAopXL

📄 #transcript included

#SoftwareDevelopment #AIagents #EngineeringCulture

Codeaholicguy May 13

The new 10x Engineer with AI

The idea of the “10x engineer” has always been a bit controversial. Some people see it as a myth. Some people see it as a harmful label that creates hero culture. Some people have worked with engineers who clearly create much more impact than others, and believe the idea is real. I sit somewhere in the middle. I don’t think a 10x engineer means someone who writes 10x more code than everyone else. That version of the idea was never useful to me. Writing more code is not the same as […]

https://codeaholicguy.com/2026/05/13/the-new-10x-engineer-with-ai/

Thomas Byern Feb 2

Most migrations fail socially before they fail technically.

Not because people are unwilling, but because the system has hidden contracts: spreadsheets, habits, undocumented workflows, “temporary” scripts that became critical infrastructure.

The code is only the visible part.
The hard part is preserving intent while changing mechanics.

#SoftwareEngineering #Migration #EngineeringCulture #SystemsThinking #Maintainability #TechLeadership #ByernNotes

Thomas Byern Jan 31

There is a quiet kind of technical excellence that looks like “nothing happened.”

No incident. No fire drill. No heroic debugging session.
Just clear boundaries, boring interfaces, and a refusal to let the system become clever in the wrong places.

Heroics feel productive.
Routine is what scales.

#SoftwareEngineering #Maintainability #Simplicity #SystemsDesign #EngineeringCulture #TechReality #ByernNotes

Sanjay Mohindroo Jan 29

Strong leaders rarely fail due to skill gaps. They fail when belief stays unclear. Curious to hear which principle guides your toughest decisions. #TechLeadership #LeadershipPhilosophy #ExecutiveLeadership #DigitalLeadership #EngineeringCulture #TrustInTech #HighPerformance #ResponsibleTech #LeadershipDesign
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quiet-power-clear-leadership-philosophy-technology-mohindroo--ra8ec

The Quiet Power of a Clear Leadership Philosophy in Technology.

A clear, bold take on shaping a leadership philosophy that fits modern tech reality and earns real trust.

InfoQ Jan 28

In the pursuit of High-Performing Engineering Teams, we often focus on code commits & metrics.

But what if the most important signals live in the relationships between teammates?

In this #InfoQ talk, Lizzie Matusov explores how trust and psychological safety are critical indicators of team success.

🎥 Watch the video 👉 https://bit.ly/4iE0Vlk

📄 #transcript included

#TeamWork #PsychologicalSafety #EngineeringCulture

Thomas Byern Jan 25

Every generation believes it finally solved complexity.
Every previous generation already tried.

What changes is not the problem space, but the tools we use to argue about it.
And the names we give to old ideas when we rediscover them.

Progress is real.
Amnesia is just faster.

#SoftwareHistory #TechPerspective #SystemsThinking #EngineeringCulture #ByernNotes

Swift Craft Jan 22

Great engineering teams share their knowledge. 🧠

We just released the full talk from Joseph El Mallah on one of the trickiest transitions in iOS right now: Moving to Swift 6 Concurrency without breaking your SwiftUI flow.

It is great to see companies like GetYourGuide supporting their engineers in sharing deep technical insights.

📺 Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/yyZneBt-4kQ

🎟️ SwiftCraft 2026 SEB Tickets (Ends Feb 13): https://swiftcraft.uk

#SwiftLang #iOSDev #SwiftUI #EngineeringCulture

Swift 6, Async/Await, SwiftUI went into a Bar... - Joseph El Mallah - Swift Craft 2025

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Tammo van Lessen ✅Jan 21

worstofbreed.net received two excellent additions to the archive recently. Thanks to Daniel and @stealthmusic for documenting the madness.

Both submissions have one in common: Excessive Granularity. We are observing teams drowning in repositories, pipelines, and YAML configurations, all in the name of "decoupling."

https://worstofbreed.net/patterns/nano-service-swarm/
https://worstofbreed.net/radar/2026/#one-to-twenty

#devops #engineeringculture #systemdesign #distributedmonolith #worstofbreed