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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

In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help identify the root causes of issues. too many tools) as the top blockers, as well as concerns about open source tools.

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How prioritizing training and mentorship retains talent

CIO

Mentorship supports movement from college intern to VP of Application Engineering From day one as a college intern, Jason Burke was assigned a mentor to help him navigate his role. One of the reasons that I’m still here at Discover today is because of the support system and the tools they provided me,” he said.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Make the effort, whatever tools you have. The effort matters more than the tools used to implement the effort, as well. We started hiring remote folks, and we wanted to reduce that abstraction,” he says.

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ShipHero’s Observability Journey to Seamless Software Debugging

Honeycomb

Committed to timely service, ShipHero recognizes that the seamless performance of its software is paramount to customer satisfaction. To maintain this high standard, the development team needs the right data at their fingertips to quickly find and solve problems as they occur. ” At a glance About Based in the U.S.,

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It’s No Secret: Enterprises Reveal Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Primary Storage

Infinidat

You can find out right now why a slew of Global Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Infinidat enterprise storage solutions, including our award-winning InfiniBox™ SSA II all-flash system, InfiniBox® hybrid, and InfiniGuard®, supported by our unparalleled white glove service.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.