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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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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

TechCrunch

“ NeuReality was founded with the vision to build a new generation of AI inferencing solutions that are unleashed from traditional CPU-centric architectures and deliver high performance and low latency, with the best possible efficiency in cost and power consumption,” Tanach told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

As founders find themselves fielding ample investor interest, accelerators are changing how they invest, what they offer to their cohorts, and how they maximize value and attract top talent, reports Natasha Mascarenhas. Do an architecture review of the product every 18-24 months.

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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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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. Chief Information Officers – tech infrastructure. VP of Engineering – tech team management. His point of view is critical when making hiring decisions.

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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.”. manual scaling of infrastructure. SRE’s rule of thumb is to keep toil below 50 percent of engineers’ work time.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. Infrastructure Optimization. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Hybrid Sync.