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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

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Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.