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).” And in a moment where it was as hard as ever to hire and retain talented software engineers, our software systems also continued to grow more and more complicated. This is good.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization. Use high-touch onboarding.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This paradigm shift placed a dual burden on engineering and technical leaders. First, there’s the internal demand to understand how your organization is going to adopt these new tools and what you need to do to avoid falling behind your competitors. Finding similar text is reduced to finding the distance between two vectors.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. My general answer is “no.”

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

“How do you get from one team, where everybody fits around a conference table, to the Amazon-style or Google-sized organization?” asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Divide your organization organically into smaller teams. Then you form your organization out of many of them.”.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

As VP of Engineering, Burke now leads multiple web and mobile development teams, as well as Discover’s customer delivery channels. In his current role, Burke is committed to giving back and mentoring other engineers as they grow their careers. That only happens in an organization that prioritizes helping people grow.”

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. Most of the organizations face this kind of tech debt.

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Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. We treat Engineering as a one-hundred-percent distributed organization.”. Buriticá would love to see more companies hiring engineers in Latin America.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What had started as a technology gap analysis had turned into more of a venting session about the growing pains he was seeing in his organization. As a leader, at one time you may have invested a fair amount of time and thought in your organization’s strategy. Over time, that initial investment loses value.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

In an older organization, this is a C-level executive who investigates the technology trends and implements them within the product in accordance with the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Below, you’ll find the highlights from their discussion (you can also listen to the full episode on SE-Radio here ).

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”. If you only look at the cursory message, it’s all about data science and hiring data scientists. Let’s call this data scientist Bob.

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Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. You are continually looking for that number, all the time,” Davis says. You’re looking for that mark.

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Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

Lisa has worked as a programmer, analyst, technical support engineer, tester, and QA director with various organizations, including a university, large and small software companies, successful web startups, consulting firms and financial services companies. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. 15 – Bridget Kromhout . 16 – Tanya Reilly.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

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Kaseya

MAY 24, 2022

Through programs like Grow Your Own, they receive training, mentorship and leadership development to move up within the organization. Headquartered in the exciting city of Miami, which is experiencing a tech renaissance, the company is committed to helping employees — known as Kaseyans – grow on their professional journeys.

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Github

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

We’ve also seen that software development is, increasingly, a community endeavor as it becomes easier to find and build on work from others around the world. Organizations are collaborating across time zones and relying on open source software. Almost three million organization accounts are now on GitHub.

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James Shore

MAY 5, 2024

In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?” I need to be accountable for engineering productivity. I led them through an exercise: “Imagine we’ve built the best product engineering organization in the world. And fraught.

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Modern CTO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We discuss James’s thoughts on creating change agents in your organization, how Intuit is revolutionizing the world of fintech with AI agents, and what James learned about organizational communication from a tough moment at PayPal. Today, we’re talking to James Barrese, SVP of Fintech at Intuit.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The majority of this book—parts two through four—is dedicated to a curated set of Agile practices that have been proven in practice. Choose the zones that your organization both needs and is willing to pay for , as described in the “Choose Your Zones” section at the end of the previous chapter. Counterintuively. probably not.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. She gives podcasts about DevOps and organized DevOpsDays. Every subject has experts and influencers.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

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Honeycomb

MARCH 4, 2021

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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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you have one team that’s eager to try Agile with your organization’s full support, it doesn’t have to be a big deal. If you’re trying to change 50 teams in an organization that’s unfamiliar with Agile ideas. That’s why organizations need to set aside time for learning Agile (see the “Make Time for Learning” section).

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Netlify

JANUARY 20, 2021

As such, the Netlify engineering organization has 2 clear and distinct tracks: you can advance into management, or you can advance as an individual contributor. It’s a strength to the organization and to individuals to have these varying experiences and responsibilities. Senior Engineers on the team are strong contributors.

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Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

Plus, a CISA program is helping critical infrastructure organizations prevent ransomware attacks. Survival Analysis of CISA KEV Vulnerabilities (Source: Verizon’s “2024 Data Breach Investigations Report,” May 2024) Here are other important findings from the 2024 report, which covers the period of Nov. And much more! 1, 2022 to Oct.

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CloudSphere

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite their expertise in this space, however, many IT professionals find effectively maintaining these environments to be quite challenging. Due to the technological nature of the cloud, CIOs and professionals in the IT sector are often the ones who become responsible for these environments. There are actually a few reasons.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. Developing leaders from within the organization.

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Stacks on Stacks

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

you won’t find compilations of announcements or who has the best SWAG. Serverless Success Stories You should follow if you looking to be inspired, build connections, learn from others Focuses on… Individuals, teams, and organizations that leverage serverless to move faster, innovate and disrupt.

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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.”. It’s often viewed as a generalization of key SRE methods so that they can be used by a wider range of organizations.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

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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Honeycomb

MARCH 1, 2023

This blog shares how Honeycomb users Slack, HelloFresh, and Intercom implemented and incorporated distributed tracing and how it helped accelerate their development cycles—and find fast answers to complex problems. An engineer that witnessed it all said, “That’s dope.” Organize a unified effort to reduce flakiness.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Sponsors and Partners. What makes Craft Conference so special?

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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. And again, organization size matters here a lot. Watch the full panel discussion below.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Everyone was looking for real-time insights by analyzing what is going on currently within their businesses and taking corrective action pro-actively. Cloudera DataFlow (CDF), the industry’s leading real-time streaming data platform, was truly at the frontlines helping our customers find clarity with their data during these dark times.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

I believe this human-centered approach is a big part of what’s helped us attract so many amazing new hires. We’ve doubled the size of the company this year, with growth on all fronts: engineering, product, design, marketing, sales. As Charity has repeated so frequently, shipping is the heartbeat of your organization. .

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