What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you prevent cascading failures between internal services? How might you re-architect your workflows when naive horizontal or vertical scaling reaches their respective limits? These were the challenges facing Slack engineers during their day-to-day development workflows in 2020. Multiple internal…
Everyone is measuring what AI does to code production. Nobody is measuring what it does to everything downstream: build, test, review, deploy, operate. The DORA data is already showing the strain.