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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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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. That’s right: engineers have rights and responsibilities.

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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

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Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. “We are software builders at heart — we’re making products we always wanted to use ourselves,” Masar said in an interview.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

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According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. ” Useful news for investors and founders, but a worrisome signal for workers at software companies: Aggregator Layoffs.fyi tracked 75 layoff events in May 2022, and as of this writing, 152 in June. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

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The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from previous investors South Park Commons Fund and a group of angels that includes Lee Fixel, Elad Gil and GitHub CTO (and former VP of Engineering at Heroku) Jason Warner. “DevOps engineers are extremely expensive to hire and extremely hard to find, especially good ones.

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Engineering Career Development at Netlify

Netlify

As such, the Netlify engineering organization has 2 clear and distinct tracks: you can advance into management, or you can advance as an individual contributor. Managers also hold a big part of the responsibility of driving a solid partnership with our product organization and helping the team solve for what the business needs to succeed.

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Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa

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Andela , a New York-based startup that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams from Africa , was one of the first to publicly announce it was going remote on the continent. Today, it is doubling down on this effort by announcing the global expansion of its engineering talent.