I was reflecting on different points in my career, where I felt “safe” in my team. The environments were supportive and collaborative. If you made a mistake, you learnt from the experience rather than being blamed or reprimanded. This was an environment where I learnt quickly and thrived.
Why
Let’s backtrack…
This is a quick post that will cover observability and instrumentation, a technique that can be used in monitoring applications.
This post will cover a few implementations and will not cover everything out there or recommend one of the other to you. …
Why
What makes a healthy team? Why does this matter?
What is empowerment and the correlation with a well functioning team?
Leadership can feel as though you’re steering a ship and navigating with challenges that continually arise.
You work to align people, communicate and resolve these challenges, while trying to maintain…
When I started coding professionally I wanted to write perfect code because that’s what I thought a great developer was. However I quickly learned that there is more to software development than just writing great code.
The question of “What makes a good developer?” is a subjective question and you…
With the popularity of platforms like Meetup.com, communities have been able to grow and allow like-minded people to meet. For the Tech community, some groups have flourished and offered their members opportunities like coaching and mentoring as well as sharing ideas and knowledge. …
October is Mental Health Month in Australia.
Everyone goes through different experiences and there will be times when you drop into low moments, where it can be difficult to pull through these times.
Here are some sobering findings from the WHO
Mental health conditions are increasing worldwide. Mainly because of…
It would make sense that being in the Technology industry, we should be striving to be creative and innovative, experimenting and building great products which delight our customers.
If you have read books like Sprint, Drive, The Lean Startup, Creativity Inc (to name a few) you may have been like…
Meet Summer, one of our Senior Engineers at SafetyCulture.
Summer works on complex systems on iAuditor, where she has had some challenging projects to lead.
In her free time she enjoys being creative from home renovation to digital art, painting and crafting, and was a semi-pro Basketball player. …
Meet Rob, one of our Senior Infrastructure Engineers at SafetyCulture.
Rob has been with the company for 3 years and has worked on projects building infrastructure environments, frontend performance testing and continually rolling out improvements for pipelines and productivity. He’s also been driving the mentoring program and running learning sessions…
This seems to be a continual question, “how do you balance delivery with tech debt, as well as maintenance and bugs (and support, incidents and everything else)?”
The answer is, there isn’t a one-size fits all approach. You need to employ different methods to find a balance. …
