developer happiness Articles

  • Inside Look: Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn

    April 4, 2023

    Authors:Viktoras Truchanovicius and Selina Zhang At LinkedIn, developer productivity and happiness has always been a priority. It is critical for our engineering leaders to understand how efficiently and effectively their teams are operating to continuously deliver value-added features for our members and build an industry-leading engineering culture. Over the...

  • Journey to GitHub: Ensuring Developer Happiness Every Step of the Way

    February 16, 2023

    At LinkedIn, we have traditionally maintained our source code in large, monolithic repositories (repos). While this worked for over a decade, it proved challenging to maintain and support as our repo grew larger, and issues like long build times, difficulties managing merge queues for reverts, and slow deployments led to differing levels of frustration for our...

  • What is Craftsmanship and Why is it Important?

    March 30, 2016

    As software engineers, we're driven by the opportunity to solve big and hairy problems, to create elegant solutions, and to build things that provide enduring value. Like any other trade involving craftsmanship, we take a lot of pride in how we build. In general, craftsmanship is defined as a skill in a particular craft. At LinkedIn Engineering, we are working...

  • Getting Code to Production With Less Friction and High...

    June 18, 2015

    A key point of frustration for many developers is a slow and inflexible release cycle. The slower the release cycle, harder it is for...