Fabio Cicerchia - Issue #135
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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
— Linus Torvalds
Architecture
Modernisation Platform
Reading time: 3 min
The Modernisation Platform is a hosting platform where Ministry of Justice teams can host and modernise applications which are not suitable for the Cloud Platform.
This repository holds the Ministry of Justice’s Modernisation Platform concepts, team information, team guide, and user guide to help onboard and support the users of our service.
Career
Compensation Survey Report 2023
Reading time: 30 min
CTO Craft’s tech leadership compensation survey, in partnership with Albany Partners, focused on discovering a transparent overview of engineering leadership compensation. Our aim was to find compensation norms, trends and patterns in salaries and compensation across tech leadership.
This report provides technology leaders with essential compensation data, including:
Base salary insights and satisfaction levels
What other compensation benefits tech leaders receive, and which they
most value
What the most common LTIP structure is a breakdown of vesting cycles
Health
More Than 50% of Managers Feel Burned Out
Reading time: 8 min
More than 50% of managers report feeling burned out, a number slightly higher than employees more broadly. The causes include the challenges of the pandemic combined with experiencing three hallmarks of burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, and a perceived lack of professional accomplishment. How can organizations better support these employees? Research from Microsoft on their own workforce explores the different ways burnout can be harmful to managers, and suggests five strategies for combatting it.
Methodologies
Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch
Reading time: 18 min
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code.
This is problem space that many talented people are tackling. In particular I’m impressed by the work and demos that I’m seeing coming from Winglang and System Initiative. The cloud infrastructure industry seems poised at the edge of a next big leap of innovation, and I’m thrilled by it. If you haven’t taken a look at these projects please do so. Believe me they are worth your time.
Productivity
25 Hints You’re Working on a High Performing Team
Reading time: 4 min
Let’s say you have a couple days to interact with a team. How might you know that you’re working with a high performing team? How might you — John — know that this is a good fit for you personally?
Here’s the personal checklist I came up with. Of course, it is always a journey. You’re never done. As I point out in #1, my primary “signal” is a growth mindset and some awareness of what better might look like. You’ll frequently find teams with incredibly capable individuals…but they are not operating as a team. Similarly, teams exist in a broader system. A great team cannot function in a broken org. Also…sometimes a team is the black sheep. They’re struggling, but the org isn’t exactly helping.
Resources
The State of DevOps Report 2024: Platform Engineering Edition Survey
Reading time: 6 min
The State of DevOps 2024 Survey is now live, and we're looking for your input! Read on for more about the focus of this year’s report, what we hope to learn, the voices you’ll see represented in it, and what to expect when it launches.
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