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

Honeycomb

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.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

CEO Kelly Ahuja tells TechCrunch that the proceeds, which bring Versa’s total capital raised to $316 million, will be put toward go-to-market efforts and scaling the company. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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How Generative AI Is Empowering CIOs and IT Professionals

CloudSphere

Despite their expertise in this space, however, many IT professionals find effectively maintaining these environments to be quite challenging. Climbing Costs: With the above variables in play, keeping on budget can sometimes feel like an impossible task. There are actually a few reasons.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

​“I have to do everything myself, and I don’t have time to fix all of this.” ” The CEO who said that to me was a successful entrepreneur who had grown his startup into a 25-person marketing company serving hundreds of brands. How can you spend your budget effectively to reduce that debt?

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7 Important Considerations when Building a Mobile App

iTexico

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. How to Monetize the App.

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

Altexsoft

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.”. Such end-to-end continuity is paramount to reduce time to market and make rapid changes. Set error budget. A DevOps lifecycle.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

taos

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. all you need is a credit card and a few hundred dollars), but should the startup become wildly successful or completely fail, the time-to-market and time-to-shutdown is nearly immediate. There, I said it!

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