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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months. “We find ourselves in an extremely good place to have the right solution that meets the market needs.” Kelly Ahuja, a Cisco alum, was tapped as Versa’s CEO in 2016.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Frontend Observability: A Candid Conversation With Emily Nakashima and Charity Majors

Honeycomb

To dive deeper into this topic, Emily Nakashima, VP of Engineering, and Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO, sat down to discuss the current state of frontend observability , common misconceptions, and how it’s changing the way developers work. Emily: Right, and it’s not just about finding bugs. And the other challenge?

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How Generative AI Is Empowering CIOs and IT Professionals

CloudSphere

Despite their expertise in this space, however, many IT professionals find effectively maintaining these environments to be quite challenging. Climbing Costs: With the above variables in play, keeping on budget can sometimes feel like an impossible task. There are actually a few reasons.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

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.”. Set error budget. This approach tolerates the acceptable risk of failure called the error budget.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. Give each team responsibility for their budget, plans, and results. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP liked what I had to say. Find small pleasures.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. Give each team responsibility for their budget, plans, and results. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. Don’t give up.

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