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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. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

TechCrunch

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. Masar, who has several startups under his belt, previously was the VP of engineering at Represent.com, an apparel e-commerce merchant. .

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

TechCrunch

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%. What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. If CTO is an enthusiast, then VP of Engineering is a great manager. Are you still a coder?” by CommitStrip.

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How 3 Companies Implemented Distributed Tracing for Better Insight into Their Systems

Honeycomb

This blog shares how Honeycomb users Slack, HelloFresh, and Intercom implemented and incorporated distributed tracing and how it helped accelerate their development cycles—and find fast answers to complex problems. VP of Engineering Renato Todorov approached the implementation of Honeycomb gradually.

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Cloudera DataFlow’s key milestones and wins in 2020

Cloudera

As a matter of fact, these new challenges gave way to tremendous opportunities for businesses to optimize their key success metrics by leveraging technology. Streaming data (or data-in-motion) is one such technology space that thrived during these times. Our keynote , delivered by our VP of Engineering, Joe Witt, and Sr.

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A Useful Productivity Measure?

James Shore

In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?” I need to be accountable for engineering productivity. 1 1 Kent and Gergely’s two-part article is excellent and worth reading. For Now The RoI metrics rely on us having product bets.

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