TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies. It also tested satellite models in Egypt and Ghana as substitutes to physical hubs.

Part-Time VPE 221

Part-Time VPE Engineering Applications Training 221

Cloudera

JUNE 5, 2023

Cloudera VP of Engineering and NiFi founder Joe Witt, joined by principal committers Mark Payne and Matt Gillman, addressed the global community via a virtual event dubbed “ Meet the Committers.” The flow he built differentiates between test or true API call before initiating a secure log in. The brilliant part comes next.

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Technical Review Google Cloud Software Review Part-Time VPE 77

Honeycomb

MARCH 1, 2023

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. Its rate for flaky tests, which return both a passing and failing result despite no changes in the code, climbed as high as 50%.

System 59

System Company Part-Time VPE Microservices 59

Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing ” where she uncovers surprises, risks, and potentially serious bugs with exploratory testing.

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Software Development Software Review Technical Review Software 111

Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Even Though you may find thousands of influencers on the internet, it is hard to know who is truly worth following. You can find a lot of useful information about DevOps and related technology topics in his Twitter account. There you will find useful DevOps information on a daily basis. Every subject has experts and influencers.

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DevOps Part-Time VPE Handbook Fractional VPE 72

Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Part-Time VPE Organization 40

Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference tickets by themselves do NOT include the workshops: Building Resilient Components with Automating Testing – Adekunle Oduye (Plaid) Software Architecture: The Hard Parts – Neal Ford (Thoughtworks, Inc.) To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up.

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Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

Github

MARCH 11, 2020

The company values transparency, especially on the engineering side, so that an engineer in Copenhagen can understand and leverage work happening in San Francisco. Adapting and reusing field-tested features seems obvious. Our environment allows developers to find solutions that have already been developed.

Organization 71

Organization Software Review Open Source Part-Time VPE 71

iTexico

AUGUST 19, 2021

While billions of people are finding products and services through mobile browsers on their smartphones, they now also access mobile apps on a regular basis. As on-the-go browsing increases, it is important for every IT director and VP of Engineering to create a succinct mobile development strategy. The Importance of Testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Software Review Part-Time VPE Agile 52

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. And welcome to Test in Production for May 21st, 2020. Thank you for joining us.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. Integrate all needed technical skills into each team, such as testing and operations. Ensure each team has control over their development, build, test, and release processes. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. See the “Make Time for Learning” section.). Integrate all needed development skills into each team, such as testing and operations. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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.”. This approach reduces the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) — or the average time needed to recover your service from a failure.

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DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. Here, the output refers to the number of test cases (let’s assume that these test cases are simple) they executed in a month. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business? What is Workplace Productivity?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. Here, the output refers to the number of test cases (let’s assume that these test cases are simple) they executed in a month. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Software Review Project Management 52

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Testing a market, be it domestic or international, is best done where the test can be performed without a significant time or effort commitment. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. The fundamental goal of building teams with complete end-to-end ownership is to reduce the feedback cycle.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

Netlify

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We didn’t want to leave ourselves open to problems later, but at the same time we were losing the autonomy and speed that we had hoped to gain. In a conversation with Dalia Havens , our VP of Engineering, we dug into the problem. The links between codebases should be limited and easy to find.

Weak Development Team 59

Weak Development Team Development Serverless Part-Time VPE 59

Stackery

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It allows you to locally build, test, and debug native Lambda runtimes defined by AWS SAM templates. Find the repository for this lesson » here and the video. There, you’ll find a blank template.yaml and a.stackery-config.yaml configuration file. Find the documentation for this lesson » here. Watch the video » here.

Serverless 71

Serverless AWS Lambda Part-Time VPE 71

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

I couldn’t afford college and I ended up getting a job at a software company in Atlanta doing tech support, which then turned into a quality assurance job where I learned to write some scripts to test what I was testing. I had one full-time employee in one part-time employee and we did staff augmentation.

Engineering 75

Engineering Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 75

Stackery

MAY 9, 2019

Impostors syndrome: that perennial juggling act between vocational ambition and that sneaking suspicion that you’ll arrive at work on a Wednesday only to find your desk sold for parts, the room darkened, and a semicircle of coworkers with flashlights under their chins, serving you with a notarized document that reads “the jig is up”.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Part-Time VPE Serverless 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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.

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