Simon LabuteConstraining Yourself Into SuccessTales from a procrastinator — how to make yourself and your teams productive.10 min read·Mar 4, 2024----
Simon LabuteOKRs for dinner with GrandmaThe next quarter was creeping up fast and so we began the dance of crafting OKRs to capture the business outcomes we were trying to…9 min read·Dec 22, 2023--1--1
Simon LabuteHow to Propose Work as an EngineerHow to pitch your ideas so that your leadership listens and they actually get into roadmap.6 min read·Oct 26, 2023----
Simon LabuteModelling Joy in Dev VelocityI was leading the developer happiness team which was really just the developer productivity team and we were chatting about upcoming…6 min read·Sep 21, 2023----
Simon LabuteinSamsara R&DWhy you should invert your feature flags in testsMost testing frameworks default feature flags to “off”. In fact you should do the exact opposite.6 min read·Jun 14, 2023----
Simon LabuteinSamsara R&DHow we prevented missing SQL indexesAt Samsara, we fixed an issue where we were having occasional outages from deploying new code that would inadvertently issue unindexed SQL…4 min read·Apr 26, 2022----
Simon LabuteinSamsara R&DThe Change in Testing that Reduced Mobile Release Bugs by 93%How we reduced our escaped bugs at release by 93%, while also reducing manual testing time by 97.5%.9 min read·Dec 1, 2021----