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Why talented software engineers could decide to leave Big Tech companies and join Michelin IS & Digital teams?

Why talented software engineers could decide to leave Big Tech companies and join Michelin IS & Digital teams?

In many companies, “climbing the ladder” usually means one thing: being promoted to the hierarchical managerial or functional managerial ranks. Nevertheless, there are plenty of valuable, talented individual contributors who have no interest in managing others, organizing steering committees, or being responsible for a team’s work. But still, they

AI for Engineering

AI for Engineering

AI for Engineering, an active topic for Michelin. Looking back at 2022, we have been communicating on it on different channels, but not on that tech blog. Let’s do it now before it gets outdated! In the data transformation at Michelin, we love meshes [see data mesh], and Artificial

Drowning in Debt

Drowning in Debt

I'm not referring to financial debt but technical debt. Technical debt is the additional cost of rework by choosing the easy solution rather than implementing the better approach. It's easy as a developer with a manager who is asking daily if you have fixed the issue

Service Level Observability

Service Level Observability

This post is based on our presentation for the Volcamp event in October 2022. Observability is no more a matter of doing or not doing. It's an essential aspect of modern software development, providing all teams building services the data they need to understand the behavior and performance

Windows Credential Guard Deployment

Windows Credential Guard Deployment

What is Windows Credential Guard? Windows Defender Credential Guard uses virtualization-based security to isolate secrets so that only privileged system software can access them. Unauthorized access to these secrets can lead to credential theft attacks. Windows Defender Credential Guard prevents these attacks by protecting NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) password

Automating Endpoint Updates with WUfB

Automating Endpoint Updates with WUfB

Managing Windows endpoints is not core to Michelin’s business of manufacturing tires or providing service to our customers. Keeping devices secure, up to date, and current is a critical activity for sure, but it doesn’t add business value like a new customer facing application does. The more of

An introduction to Datalog

An introduction to Datalog

A rule-based data query language that thinks differently

The Michelin Guide: an unexpected event driven use case

The Michelin Guide: an unexpected event driven use case

tl;dr content publication is a challenge for an institution like the Michelin guide. Event streaming between SaaS solutions using Kafka hosted in Confluent cloud was a solution for us to move from a 2 days delay publication to near real time. Although it was not easy especially from an

Striving to reach Python literacy in Engineering

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Striving to reach Python literacy in Engineering

This article discusses part of the journey of IT engineers, creating a framework for themselves with the intention of making it available to non-IT engineers in R&D as well. Recognizing change For more than 20 years, our software – for both computer and data science – was written using C,

Add multi-cloud into Cloud adoption roadmap

Add multi-cloud into Cloud adoption roadmap

Why do we study multi-cloud now? “Multi-cloud? We already have it for years!” That might be your first reaction when reading the title. But if I say the definition of multi-cloud here is NOT whether you use cloud services from multiple providers, but is as below, will you change your

Creativity and Innovation in Michelin Information Technology

Creativity and Innovation in Michelin Information Technology

Creativity and Innovation go hand in hand. Discover what I learned about these during a learning expedition and what I plan to do within Michelin Infra IT teams to help foster more creativity and Innovation.

Journey to Identity Governance : Benefits, Challenges and Pitfalls

Journey to Identity Governance : Benefits, Challenges and Pitfalls

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) by definition refers to a set of processes and tools which enable lifecycle management of human and non human identities and efficient management of access into the different systems in an enterprise. The Problem Michelin like many large enterprises has a complex portfolio of applications

4 lessons learned from deploying Microsoft Defender with Intune

4 lessons learned from deploying Microsoft Defender with Intune

These come from a sizable deployment of 70 000+ endpoints, mostly physical Windows 10 devices, but not only, we completed earlier this year in an hybrid environment (Active Directory, System Center Configuration Manager, Azure Active Directory and Intune) which roughly took ~7 months from start to finish, engineering included. Some

Choosing an Azure Database: An Evaluation of Cost and Performance

Choosing an Azure Database: An Evaluation of Cost and Performance

Do you have a database that currently runs on an on-prem server or cloud VM, and you would like to switch to a PaaS database in Azure to take advantage of a more evergreen existence? Perhaps you have an application that uses Excel files or an Access database, and you

Software-Driven Company - Creating and Defining a Data-Driven Culture

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Software-Driven Company - Creating and Defining a Data-Driven Culture

About 9 months ago, I moved to the Business Intelligence and Analytics department in Michelin Americas as a technical architect. I've been with Michelin for almost 10 years in various technical roles, but this was a whole new challenge and opportunity. During that short 9 months, I'

You are being too pragmatic

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You are being too pragmatic

Michelin is transforming to become a data driven company and a software driven company. In order to do this we need to transform the mindset of our teams to create best in class software. Software craftmanship is one of the goals of Michelin toward becoming a software driven company. I

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Back in 2004, I was fresh out of a French Engineering school and decided to move to London to start my career as a software developer. I joined a start-up that had slightly slimmed down after the dot-com bubble. On my first day at work we picked a User Story

Software-Defined Excellence for Michelin

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Software-Defined Excellence for Michelin

We’re very glad to welcome again Yves Caseau, Michelin Chief Digital & Information Officer, on our blog. This time, Yves will be sharing with us why Michelin aim to be a software-driven company. You will be thrilled to see how a major industrial actor like Michelin is changing its

QUIC Analysis - A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport

QUIC Analysis - A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport

Introduction The goal of this article is to do the analysis of the QUIC protocol, how it works, what are its advantages/disadvantages and what kind of impacts it will have on the network world. QUIC is a new connection-oriented protocol that creates a stateful interaction between a client and

Under the hood of our blogging platform

Under the hood of our blogging platform

This article is a REX on how we choose and implement our blogging platform to meet our needs. Comparison between Ghost, Wordpress, Medium and Dev.to.

hydraulic pipelines

CI/CD-as-a-Service

What a pity to copy/paste ".gitlab-ci.yml" across repositories. We all started like that and it doesn't matter! But now we should switch our mindset to simplify & re-use our jobs. This article is a feedback of what we took away from a new way of developing our GitLab CI/CD.

3 years after Data mesh: lessons learnt from early believers of the mesh

Back in 2019. At that time, I was deploying a data lake strategy inside Michelin and we had decided to build the main one as a platform to enable more data use case. I was having a coffee while reading my mail. In my box came an email from one