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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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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%. Dear Sophie: Will a doctor get a green card faster than an engineer? .

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

Altexsoft

In an older organization, this is a C-level executive who investigates the technology trends and implements them within the product in accordance with the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book? I was finding myself in coaching call after coaching call talking about the same challenges. And I remember feeling that way, at every stage of management, you know not just as a new line manager, but when I became a manager of managers, and then when I became a VPE.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

taos

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. While this is doable for some larger organizations, when multiplied across multiple regions and as many time zones, the daunting task becomes untenable. We can also consider an example of application metrics and logging.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? CFS(cloud file system), EOS (Egnyte object store), Content Security, Event Sync, Search Service, User behavior based recommendation service form major parts of the system. You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog.