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Honeycomb Welcomes New VP of Product

Honeycomb

This is the second time we’ve grown an executive from within. One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Continuous improvement is an integral part of being Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The VP liked what I had to say.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. See the “Make Time for Learning” section.). Counterintuively.

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

Altexsoft

We hope the information will be useful for DevOps specialists, product managers, CTOs, and other executives seeking ways to improve the reliability of their systems without victimizing the speed of innovations. The primary focus of SRE is system reliability which is considered the most fundamental feature of any product.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

But this isnt a talk about measuring productivity. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. turn right] How are you measuring productivity? And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. It cant be done. turn left] Im not.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Document store. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? Egnyte Connect is the content collaboration and data management platform. You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog. Do you have a particular management philosophy? Video Transcoding. Permissions.