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🦙🐲🦦fan...ex-VPE @marriottintl, @tackleio, @blackboard & @contrastsec...father to M&C, husband to @jennymfeldman

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

@grantpaulsen the voice is Bob from Bob’s Burgers

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

It’s only been a couple of weeks and I really miss DevOps weekly. Hope it comes back…

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

This weeks @devopsweekly was on 🔥. Good posts! Big fan of https://t.co/ZVB0pUyXaa

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

@jgallimore I go through cycles. Right now I’m in a big cycle. I’m reading/listening to several concurrent books. I listen in the car, on walks, at the grocery store, etc…I sneak it in.

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Today's the release day for Wiring the Winning Organization! Kudos to @RealGeneKim and the team at @ITRevBooks for another incredible book. I was fortunate to get an early preview the last few weeks. I've put an initial review on my Substack. Enjoy!

https://t.co/enX03sJFpB

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

“Do the things you love with the people you love!”

https://t.co/t2OIAKrVTE

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Learning from Incidents, by @PerfForensics https://t.co/6lrWiJfSN4

[Good Counsel HS Golf @GoodcounselG]

@gcfootball Falcon Family 💛

[Melissa Perri @lissijean]

The Product Operations book is finally available for purchase on Amazon! @dtilles and I have been working on this baby for over two years. You can purchase now on Amazon (kindle will download on Thurs!) /1

https://t.co/dcDnvimpEa

#productops

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲

In the latest paper by Google Engineers, they researched how to define, measure and manage Technical Debt. They use quarterly engineering satisfaction surveys to analyze the results.

𝟭. 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁

Google took an empirical approach to defining technical debt. They asked engineers about the types of technical debt they encountered and what mitigations would be appropriate to fix this debt. This resulted in a collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive list of 10 categories of technical debt, including:

🔹 Migration is needed or in progress: This may be motivated by the need for code or systems to be updated, migrated, or maintained.

🔹 Code degradation: The codebase has degraded or not kept up with changing standards over time. The code may be in maintenance mode, needing updates or migrations.

🔹 Documentation on project and application programming interfaces (APIs): Information on how your project works is hard to find, missing, or incomplete.

🔹 Testing: Poor test quality or coverage, such as missing tests or poor test data, results in fragility and flaky tests.

🔹 Code quality: Product architecture or project code must be better designed. It may have been rushed or a prototype/demo.

🔹 Dead and abandoned code: Code/features/projects were replaced or superseded but still need removal.

🔹 Team needs more expertise: This may be due to staffing gaps, turnover, or inherited orphaned code/projects.

🔹 Dependencies: Dependencies are unstable, rapidly changing, or trigger rollbacks.

🔹 Migration could have been better executed or abandoned: This may have resulted in maintaining two versions.

🔹 Release process: The rollout and monitoring of production need to be updated, migrated, or maintained.

𝟮. 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁

Google measures technical debt through a quarterly engineering survey. They ask engineers about which of these categories of technical debt have hindered their work. The responses to these surveys help Google identify teams that struggle with managing different types of technical debt. E.g., they found that engineers working on machine learning systems face different types of technical debt compared to engineers who build and maintain back-end services.

They focused on code degradation, teams needing more expertise, and migrations being required or in progress. Then, they explored 117 metrics proposed as indicators of one of these forms of technical debt—the results were that no single metric predicted reports of technical debt from engineers.

𝟯. 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁

Over the last four years, Google has made a concerted effort to define better, measure, and manage technical debt. Some of the steps taken include:

🔸 Creating a technical debt management framework to help teams establish good practices

🔸 Creating a technical debt management maturity model and accompanying technical debt maturity assessment that
evaluates and characterizes an organization's technical debt management process

🔸 Organizing classroom instruction and self-guided courses to evangelize best practices and community forums to drive continual engagement and sharing of resources.

🔸 Tooling that supports the identification and management of technical debt (for example, indicators of poor test coverage, stale documentation, and deprecated dependencies)

It's important to note that zero technical debt is not the goal at Google. The presence of deliberate, prudent technical debt reflects the practicality of developing systems in the real world. The key is to manage it thoughtfully and responsibly.

Check the full link in the comments.

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[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Two week observation in the new role…it’s worth taking the time to celebrate and recognize when folks go above the call of duty to help you and your team.

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

@jgallimore Today’s talk ;)

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Big fan of @behemphi. Super excited to see his posts on SubStack. https://t.co/tyJyzzJnGK

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

@sweatystartup Bad take…

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Someone is waiting for her weekend house guest ;) #WinnieTheWonderpup https://t.co/8tqnCdfbG0

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

How I’m feeling about Threads today ;)

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Let's see if this gets some traffic

https://t.co/zjA7TELcnP

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Of all the Twitter clones…this new one by IG might be the real deal. Watch where the advertisers and businesses go. That will be the clue.

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

They say it gets easier with 🌧️❄️☃️after 5 days. I don’t think so 🤷

[Steve Feldman 🦙 @PerfForensics]

Forgot to post…streak continues 🌧️☃️❄️