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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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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

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Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. “We are software builders at heart — we’re making products we always wanted to use ourselves,” Masar said in an interview.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

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According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. ” Useful news for investors and founders, but a worrisome signal for workers at software companies: Aggregator Layoffs.fyi tracked 75 layoff events in May 2022, and as of this writing, 152 in June. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

TechCrunch

The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner. “DevOps engineers are extremely expensive to hire and extremely hard to find, especially good ones.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. We’ve recently updated and reposted it.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

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. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering. Debt is still a useful concept While tech debt is rarely a helpful label when making the argument to pay down debt, the notion of “debt” remains a useful one in software engineering.