Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. Honeycomb, the company. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The approach they’ve had the entire way through felt deeply centered on people-first, characterizing people as non-linear first-order components in software development , and fully aware of sociotechnical challenges The awareness of people’s value appeared to run deep throughout the company. company whose career ladder I do not control. .

Technical Review 138

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Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

Building a suitable and sustainable platform is more than a technical challenge; it might also require a change in the way people work and sometimes new skills are needed. There can be a variety of reasons for starting a platform initiative with very different outcomes that don’t always go together well or can even be mutually exclusive.

Engineering 130

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small. Grow together.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

This is your host Sachin and today I have with me Sergey Fedorov, The Director of Engineering at Netflix. As you all know, Netflix is a media services provider and a production company that most of us have been binge-watching content on for while now. Welcome, Sergey! We’re delighted to have you as a guest on our podcast today.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

He then grabs our attention by telling us the scale of the opportunity (and a bit of name-dropping): When Intel wants to build a billion-dollar factory, they need a loan that is too big for any single lending company to take on, so the lenders form a syndicate that pools its resources to support a facility.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Our tools provide a surprisingly deep level of insight, into your applications for your engineers. As a result, it makes things like chaos engineering far easier to build and adapt and grow. It’s in the DNA of our company to be thinking about performance, and monitoring, and resiliency. Why should you listen to me?

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.

Part-Time VPE 98

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking.

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