Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2020

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. Why did you decide to build this system?

Part-Time VPE 82

Part-Time VPE Data Advertising Data Engineering 82

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 20, 2025

Asure recognized the potential of generative AI to further enhance the user experience and better understand the needs of the customer and wanted to find a partner to help realize it. As we embarked on our journey at Asure to integrate generative AI into our solutions, finding the right partner was crucial.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. If CTO is an enthusiast, then VP of Engineering is a great manager. People management tasks. Allocate tasks.

CTO 76

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Honeycomb

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Committed to timely service, ShipHero recognizes that the seamless performance of its software is paramount to customer satisfaction. To maintain this high standard, the development team needs the right data at their fingertips to quickly find and solve problems as they occur.

Software 80

Software Part-Time VPE Retail DevOps 80

Github

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Today we published our annual Octoverse report, showing that the world’s software is built by a global community, one that’s growing, evolving, and increasingly interconnected. 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.

Open Source 15

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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.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Engineering Strategy Product Management 52

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While this tradition was founded in the R&D org (that’s Engineering, Design, and Product), anyone at Honeycomb is welcome to demo. . They also make our work visible in a way that status reporting cannot and help colleagues who are not part of day-to-day product development feel included. Where did we go wrong?

Part-Time VPE 69

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Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct. 1, 2022 to Oct.

Programming 75

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

For this sort of situation, regular on-call health reporting can go a long way. If you ever find yourself in an intractable debate on tech debt investments, I encourage you to try one of the more precise labels for the work you’d like to do. Interested in reading more about engineering management?

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CloudSphere

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

By Matt Wong , VP Delivery & Operations, CloudSphere For most businesses, the operation and maintenance of cloud computing environments is the responsibility of the Chief Information Officer (CIOs) and IT team. Additionally, as reported by Gartner, approximately 80% of businesses are predicted to migrate towards cloud hosting by 2025.

Generative AI 52

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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. For every user-reported issue, there are likely hundreds more going unnoticed.

Part-Time VPE 90

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You have those leads report to a manager. Why management matters.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

Infinidat

MARCH 28, 2024

You can find out right now why a slew of Global Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Infinidat enterprise storage solutions, including our award-winning InfiniBox™ SSA II all-flash system, InfiniBox® hybrid, and InfiniGuard®, supported by our unparalleled white glove service. Never had an issue.

Storage 69

Storage Biotech Enterprise Part-Time VPE 69

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew. The VP liked what I had to say.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 94

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane. What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. And after you successfully measure your workplace and employee productivity, if you find it to be extremely low, then you need to take action and do something about it. That’s insane.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

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. I am VP of Engineering over there.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

iTexico

AUGUST 19, 2021

While billions of people are finding products and services through mobile browsers on their smartphones, they now also access mobile apps on a regular basis. As on-the-go browsing increases, it is important for every IT director and VP of Engineering to create a succinct mobile development strategy. Stay Lean and Agile.

Mobile 52

Mobile Software Review Part-Time VPE Agile 52

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

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 used the indicators to support a qualitative discussion of what’s happening in Engineering, rather than just reporting numbers.

Metrics 109

Metrics CTO Coach Part-Time VPE Engineering 109

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

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. I use that story all the time.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

How can I help managers who care about this stuff, support the people who report to them in like a little bit of a new way. A bunch of stuff about handoffs, how do you hand off direct reports from an old manager to you, just tons of like tools and worksheets and stuff to help you hit the ground running. Lara: Yeah… Absolutely.

CTO Coach 52

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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. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

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. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? CFS(cloud file system), EOS (Egnyte object store), Content Security, Event Sync, Search Service, User behavior based recommendation service form major parts of the system. You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog.

Architecture 21

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