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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

At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help identify the root causes of issues. 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. But rarely is it this simple.

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

TechCrunch

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%.

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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. Schedule and perform the release.

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

Honeycomb

You can compare tiny differences between multiple traces coming through your microservices-based applications every day to pinpoint areas that are affecting performance. Today, thanks to distributed tracing with Honeycomb, the HelloFresh team spends less time on maintenance, and has reduced the number of tools they use.

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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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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. It also puts much attention to tracking results, making measurable performance improvements, and automating operations tasks. What is DevOps?

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