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A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity

DevOps.com

Skilled engineers are in high demand, as their ability to build new products quickly is extremely valuable for businesses competing in a tight market. Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

Challenge Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy. And the engineers needed a significant investment of time and debugging expertise to gain a contextual understanding of any issue. The challenge?

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

Honeycomb

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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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

Now, she says, people are trying to put it into production, thinking about legal and security issues, and bringing products to market. Mid-career people from, say, marketing and sales can bring new perspectives to technology problems compared to people who’ve been steeped in computer science from day one. It’s how we can go faster.

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Employee Spotlight: Zayo Engineer Mark Jensen

Zayo

Mark Jensen is Zayo’s senior director of Engineering, Lit Services, responsible for strategic and tactical planning for Zayo’s lit optical networks and solutions. Mark, who graduated as a Petroleum Engineer from Montana Tech, came to Zayo via the 360networks acquisition in 2011. What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo?

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

Honeycomb

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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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation

TechCrunch

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. . Image Credits: Codacy.