Welcome to our weekly curated list of interesting stories. Covering anything and everything in the industry, we collect and share a handful of links every Friday. Enjoy!

Developers “Own” The Code, So Shouldn’t Designers “Own” The Experience? “If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re not sure why something was designed in a particular way, and think it could be done better, don’t just dive in and start making changes.” Collaboration between Engineering and Design is hard, but worth it!

A framework for performance: Performance Engineering throughout the lifecycle Great thoughts on formalizing including performance considerations into your development practices.

Introduction to release engineering “Release engineering is a relatively new and fast-growing discipline of software engineering that can be concisely described as building and delivering software.” This is obviously near and dear to our hearts here at CircleCI.

The history of ‘this website is well-crafted’ hints Love this framework for thinking about what has defined cutting edge websites through the years.