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Removing engineering friction: Creating an evolutionary culture

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Talkat Velocity 2017 · 2017-06-19..06-22· [developer-experience, engineering-leadership]

speaker

name:Phillip Liu
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video:https://youtu.be/7pTUar25L9Q
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that removing engineer friction through measurement and tooling produces faster, safer change: teams instrument production, push config and code through an CI/CD pipeline, and watch metrics to make targeted fixes — one index service shows a recurring 280,000 writes in the queue trigger, a config change reduces the backlog, and iterations continue. Claims: 20 engineers run 30+ subprojects, execute 15+ weekly releases, and achieve ~99.9% availability by making data-driven, fine-grained changes and refining observability.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Modern software expectations
  2. 1:31Agile engineering processes
  3. 2:35Data-driven development
  4. 4:10Measuring development impact

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