Industry Practices
Learn from how leading technology companies and proven methodologies approach software quality at scale.
Why Study Industry Practices?
- Proven at scale - These practices work in real, complex environments
- Evidence-based - Backed by empirical research and case studies
- Adaptable - Principles can be tailored to your context
- Evolving - Represents current state of the art
Topics in This Section
DevOps Foundations
The CALMS framework (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing) and core DevOps principles.
DevOps Teams & Adoption
Team structures, adoption patterns, and organizational transformation for DevOps.
Agile Retrospectives
Continuous improvement through structured reflection and action planning.
Testing Practices
Modern testing approaches including shift-left, shift-right, and continuous testing.
PSP & TSP
Personal Software Process and Team Software Process for disciplined engineering.
Site Reliability Engineering
Google’s approach to running production systems: SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction.
Industry Case Studies
Quality practices at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, and other technology leaders.
Google Engineering Practices
Test pyramid (70/20/10), code review with Readability certification, static analysis, flaky test management.
Microsoft Quality Practices
Milestone-based development, bug bars, testing roles (SDE/SDET), War Room ship decisions.
Quality Gates & CI/CD
Pre-submit/post-submit/release gates, deployment strategies, feature flags lifecycle.
Study Notes
SN: Industry Quality Practices
Comprehensive study notes summarizing industry quality practices from Google, Microsoft, Netflix, and Facebook, plus emerging AI/LLM-based approaches. Includes key numbers reference card, exam preparation materials, and anti-patterns summary.
Key Themes
- Automation - Automate repetitive tasks to ensure consistency and free up human judgment
- Measurement - Track what matters to enable data-driven decisions
- Culture - Technical practices must be supported by organizational culture
- Continuous improvement - Small, incremental changes compound over time
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