Building Tooling And Culture Together
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Building Tooling & Culture Together Nishan Subedi Sr. Software Engineer @subedinishan
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Building Tooling & Culture TogetherNishan SubediSr. Software Engineer@subedinishan
Overview:• Present some tools we use at Etsy• Talk about why we use these tools• Highlight the inter relationship between tooling
& culture
CultureTooling
We have lots of homegrown tools!
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How did we get here?
Organically, with iterations.
Some functions of tools• Simplify• Empower• Automate
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Why do we like these tools?
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Abstractions will not capture the complete
context.
Technology is a product of the culture
that builds it.
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Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Tools: window into the culture
ImplicitAssumptions
Beliefs & Values
Tools
Edgar Schein
Beliefs & Values @ Etsy• Just ship.• If it moves, graph it.• Optimize for developer happiness.• Don’t be an a**hole.• Engineering with a captial E.
Manifestation of beliefs
ImplicitAssumptions
Beliefs & Values
Tools
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We are a learning organization.
Conscious shaping of culture
ImplicitAssumptions
Beliefs & Values
Tools
CultureTooling
Thankyou!etsy.com/careerscodeascraft.comgithub.com/etsy
References• Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander• Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins• Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein• https://www.thekua.com/atwork/2016/04/12-years-12-lessons-working-at-thoughtworks/• https://learn.chef.io/skills/tools-for-devops/• http://thehypertextual.com/2013/01/29/21st-century-management-and-the-virtues-of-operational-subculture/• http://thehypertextual.com/2013/01/17/edgar-schein-organizational-culture-and-leadership/• https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/2014/09/22/curious-relationship-culture-tools/• http://mathplugged.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-we-build-tools-then-they-build-us.html• http://oncommit.tumblr.com/post/46298334333/no-bull-chaos-monkeys-cap-triangles-and-conwa• http://laughingmeme.org/2015/08/31/five-years-building-a-culture-and-handing-it-off/• http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/tecnics_and_civilization.pdf• http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/• https://saltworks.stanford.edu/assets/zv585py2131.pdf• https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
