Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. To help protect our engineering managers and support them in some of the challenges of this changing role, I propose the following contract. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to data from PitchBook, venture capital investments have reached about $13.66 They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering. He demurred when asked what percentage of the financing was equity versus debt.

Security 193

Security Network WAN Fractional VPE 193

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. An interesting thing happened: the data scientists started pushing back, arguing that they are, in fact, as skilled as data engineers at data engineering. Let’s call this data scientist Bob.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Engineering often has several directors who own different pieces of it, such as platform, ops, front end, or science and analytics. What are we doing as a business?

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Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. And much more! 1, 2022 to Oct. 1, 2022 to Oct.

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Infrastructure Programming Conference Fractional VPE 70

Dzone - DevOps

MAY 5, 2021

However, when developers collaborate with ops, or ops with business teams, or the business with developers, everyone can quickly get on the same page, drawing data from a single source of truth. Your custom code whether developed by staff, consultants, or outsourced. Eric Mizell , VP of Field Engineering at Keyfactor.

Fractional CTO 78

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I remember feeling that way, at every stage of management, you know not just as a new line manager, but when I became a manager of managers, and then when I became a VPE. She hired me to be a fractional VP of Engineering at Meetup. And so I just feel for them, I care about them. It’s hard. We still chat.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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 term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

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taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Anyone who has run one or more data centers knows the pains of running one or more data centers. Compared to building out a data center on your own, public cloud is incredibly easy on the timeline and your budget.

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer. Marcus: I do.

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Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75