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

Honeycomb

VPs of Engineering from frontend backgrounds are relatively rare, and it’s partly because the most pressing technical challenges a startup faces are often around scaling, reliability, and backend architecture. The book covers many different engineering leadership roles and how one might work toward preparing for each.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

And it plans to add more than 1,080 new soft skills-related offerings this year, including live training courses, video courses, and books. “IT IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds. But most of us are mere mortals,” he says.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

to the release of our O’Reilly book, Observability Engineering , interest in the concept and practice of observability—as well as Honeycomb’s role in popularizing it—has taken off like wildfire. Better solutions for modern architectures.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What are some of those key design and architecture philosophies that engineers at Netflix follow to handle such a scale in terms of network acceleration, as well as content delivery? And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. Makes sense.

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Share Pie: The DDD Treasure Hidden in Plain Sight

Strategic Tech

It’s the Share Pie story in chapter 8 of Eric Evans’ DDD book. I hope you also enjoyed my highlights, but I would still recommend reading the whole story in the book. Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. This treasure has been hiding in plain sight all along.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Our guests today are two superbly experienced front end engineers, and with several books, and many, many talks between them. We have Rebecca Murphey, senior technical lead at Indeed.com, and Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Century. A company called Fresh Books. How do you lay out architecture and things?

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. In other words, a bazaar-style hardware architecture was vastly superior to a cathedral-style architecture.)