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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.