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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

If you know you’re facing a particularly tough internal fight to adopt a tool, I’d recommend taking a look at the frameworks used by enterprise sales teams when they plan the sales process. Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

Automating our enterprise billing: we need it to be manageable while providing us a lot of different ways to sell at the enterprise level. What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant. In Q1 we promoted Emily Nakashima to VP of Engineering , and we hired two more engineering managers in Q4.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype. By 2007, Beevers had completed his Ph.D.