Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Chaos Engineering is perceived as a technical practice. The post Chaos Engineering as management practice appeared first on Xebia Blog. However, it can be leveraged as a management practice to create a safe environment for individuals and teams. It is one of the practices that an organisation can leverage to be anti-fragile.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. What we have discovered in implementing emerging technology at U.S. Banking on technology and people The largest technology investment for U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. . In other words, leadership cares for the forest and not the trees.

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Difficulties in Creating Autonomy and Alignment Creating a performance culture of high alignment and high autonomy is not a one-time effort. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 Astro support developers through salary and promotion reviews, Samira also noted, assigning engineering mentors who advocate for the progress on developers’ teams. million by 2030.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Equally, we’re seeing really interesting things happening with large, traditional healthcare organizations and with government leadership,” Hultman Kramer added. The company recently hired Varun Singh as chief product technology officer and Sarah Milstein as vice president of engineering. HIPAA legislation in the U.S.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Domain-driven design (DDD) has emerged in software engineering as a methodology for tackling complex domain problems by connecting the implementation to an evolving model. Resistance to change, entrenched organizational cultures, and the theories’ complexity can pose significant barriers.

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Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. DevOps transformation is a symbiosis between top-down leadership commitment and bottom up change from the team level. Within IT, DevOps answers the global call for organizational transformation. How do we bring this to life?

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” I’m looking to turn every developer into the single most productive engineer on the team.”

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It’s extremely frustrating as an engineer to work on something which is cancelled and to switch focus to something else. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. The final part is leadership. There are a few patterns which can help you.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. But looking at the responsibilities we were taking around vendor negotiations, voluntarily cross-pollinating silos and impacting engineering teams roadmaps in anticipation of scaling needs, we decided to rework that whole category into a broader “system-level” perspective.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” The concept of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) has been around since 2003, making it even older than DevOps.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Engineering. So many wins in 2020.

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. Engineering. So many wins in 2020.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Hiring is so hard?—?finding to be an elite tech company?—?for

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

Things either swing entirely out of control, or wise leadership steps in with some "process" to restore the balance. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized. Experience with the chaotic none-process can often lead people to believe that any and all processes are a good thing.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. Engineering teams are recognizing observability as a distinct and emerging practice, and are hungry for a truly differentiated product like Honeycomb.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that. .”

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. We could mitigate against that, by voting for leadership and setting term limits to prevent people from settling in.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

In our fourth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Sergey Fedorov, Director of Engineering, Netflix to understand how one of the world’s biggest and most famous Over-The-Top (OTT) media service provider, Netflix, handles its content delivery and network acceleration to provide uninterrupted services to its users globally.

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com. If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […].

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing. Software engineer. As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements. Quality assurance engineer.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

As engineering leaders, we’re like the mortar between the bricks: We connect structures, teams, and people. When I joined CircleCI in 2018, I met with everyone in our engineering organization because I wanted to get to know the people we were working with. It’s our career-growth framework for engineers. We hold them together.

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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.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” A successful startup engineering team has to say no to tantalizing opportunities constantly. Now it had to be something else.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Perhaps the most important aspect of discovery is embedding it in your culture and making it a continuous activity for leaders and for makers. Unfortunately, making continuous design & discovery part of your engineering culture cannot be achieved in a single workshop.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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