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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

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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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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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

After doing some research, here’s a list of 20 women in software development I admire for what they have done and for their contribution in the Software Development Industry. . . 20 influential women in software development. . The first one in our list of influential women in software development is Elisabeth Hendrickson.

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

Altexsoft

This article explains how DevOps and SRE facilitate building reliable software, where they overlap, how they differ from each other, and when they can efficiently work side by side. The primary focus of SRE is system reliability which is considered the most fundamental feature of any product. Treat operations as a software problem.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

How am I measuring productivity? Software engineering productivity cant be measured. The question of measuring productivity is a famous one, and the best minds in the industry have concluded it cant be done. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. So I told the truth.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation. We were pretty flat at the time.