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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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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. He’s authored no less than seven books about software development and has been a columnist for a number of software publications. There you will find useful DevOps information on a daily basis. Bridget Kromhout .

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

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).

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. A company called Fresh Books. How do you lay out architecture and things?

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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.

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News from the largest JAMstack conference yet

Netlify

I’ve been a fan of Ire’s for some time. She is the COO and VP of Engineering at a crypto currency exchange based in Nigeria. So I was excited to see her explain how she stitched a number of available tools services to generate social media assets as part of her site build mechanics. Crafty stuff.

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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.”. The hierarchy of service reliability needs, according to Google’s SRE book. Source: Site Reliability Engineering.

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