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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book? I was finding myself in coaching call after coaching call talking about the same challenges. 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.

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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.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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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.”. Treat operations as a software problem. SRE utilizes software engineering to solve operations problems.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

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. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero.

Weak Development Team 52

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Also, after this event, we had a meeting with our Principal Engineer and software development team to discuss this topic as we noticed that in each company it is slightly different. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

For this piece, I interviewed a select group of successful ML leaders including Sambhus; Lior Gavish , co-founder at Monte Carlo; and Yotam Hadass , VP of engineering at Electric.ai, for their insights. ML recruiting strategy. Recruiting for ML comes with several challenges.

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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.

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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. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation. We were pretty flat at the time.

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