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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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Startups, if your CEO isn’t running your fundraising, you’re doing it wrong

TechCrunch

Hire the right people to build the company. For smaller investors, it’s a case of being on the regular updates, and when the CEO asks if anyone knows an amazing VP of engineering, to reach into your little black book of contacts to see if they can help in some way. Whatever you do, don’t run out of money.

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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. We empower our partners and customers to discover, plan, migrate, optimize, modernize, and secure entire cloud environments with automated features that save businesses time, money and disruptions.

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

Honeycomb

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

There’s a lot to say about refactoring, with many good books written on the topic. If you ever find yourself in an intractable debate on tech debt investments, I encourage you to try one of the more precise labels for the work you’d like to do. Interested in reading more about engineering management?

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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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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. She is the author of the book “ Explore It!: A sought after speaker and coach, Mala Gupta’s Java books with Manning Publications, USA, are top-rated for Oracle Certification around the globe.