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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I find basically all business problems and domains within a software company interesting, and I have always loved that startups let you see how all the pieces fit together.

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

Netlify

Running untrusted code in-process and ensuring it doesn’t spend too long executing and doesn’t block the whole process. As an engineer based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), I usually start my work day earlier than folks in the Pacific time zone. Improving our data pipeline.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying). Congrats to Observe Inc.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

My purpose as a Developer Advocate is to help software teams with their work, and that work can have positive ripple effects. Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly. No Q4 code freezes for us. no oversharing or prying). Congrats to Observe Inc.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Whether you’re trying to increase productivity or release better-quality code, the biggest piece of advice is to lead with empathy. . Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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

Honeycomb

I was always able to find something to squeeze in between meetings or at the end of the day: convert a file to typescript, look at a dashboard, read a document, refactor a test, do a code review, check in with a teammate, answer a question in slack, etc.