Scaling Our Engineering Department (part 2)
This is the second part in a 2-part series. Read part 1. In my last post I gave an overview of how we started the process of changing the way we do agile development at Leaseweb by setting goals,
Tag: development
A maturity model for DevOps teams
Last year, we merged our existing operations and development departments into one Product Engineering department. Since then we have been focusing a lot on coaching all 13 teams and improving their effectiveness In october last year, we attended an excellent talk by Bol.com at Velocity Amsterdam. In this talk they explained their ongoing transition towards DevOps. […]
The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Scale (Part 2)
In this 2-part mini-series, Joshua Hoffman examines some of the common issues companies face when designing for scalability. Read part 1 here. In my previous blog I looked at what I call the first three sins of web scale – pride (the refusal to use tools not invented here), envy (the desire for a more […]
The seven deadly sins of web scale (Part 1)
Throughout my career I’ve had the opportunity to work at a variety of different companies both large and small. They each had their own set of unique challenges regarding growth but one thing I noticed with time and experience was that the solutions to the problems they faced were not specific to the company itself. […]
The rise of the API at Leaseweb
It’s no secret that Leaseweb heavily relies on automation to manage the large network of services that we offer. Over the last five years, we have been investing a lot in our internal systems and our strategy has been to have them communicate via APIs (specifically web services).