Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. We’ve recently updated and reposted it.

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Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. She is the author of the book “ Explore It!: A sought after speaker and coach, Mala Gupta’s Java books with Manning Publications, USA, are top-rated for Oracle Certification around the globe.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering. There’s a lot to say about refactoring, with many good books written on the topic. Interested in reading more about engineering management? Interested in reading more about engineering management?

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The hierarchy of service reliability needs, according to Google’s SRE book. Source: Site Reliability Engineering.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

He also now sits on the board of Creative Commons and he co-authored the bestselling book * How F d Up is Your Management? Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. VP: The VP is typically the highest point on the tree for gathering everyone in a function.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. Worked there.

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