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Difference between a team lead and an engineering manager and how to transition between these roles
Transitioning from a team lead role to an engineering manager role is tough and you will experience many changes when transitioning between these two roles. What happens when you become an engineering manager?
How to groom your engineers for engineering management roles
Engineering leadership within companies are constantly looking to create an equitable process to figure out who on a software engineering team gets the opportunity to try management. However, there aren’t many good resources to help...
Interviewing for the role of CTO of an early-stage company? Here is what CEOs look for in their potential CTOs
I recently came across someone who was consulting for a seed-funded startup that had a great team and a great product. He was one of the first few engineers on the team. They recently climbed...
List of 57 open-source time-series databases you can explore
Here is a list of open-source time series databases that you can check out.
The difference between Event Logging and Tracing in Observability
I have been noticing that a lot of folks are often confused between event logging and tracing. In terms of building out a generic SD for devs to report on observability data, should Event APIs...
It's a known issue - How Product Managers should deal with issue or feature related enquiries or feedback
I often hear folks in my network being triggered by interactions with product managers within their companies whenever they follow up on certain product-related issues. The triggering phrase invariably is “It’s a known issue”. And...
How to build a customer advisory board
Regardless of where you are in your product journey, it is impreative that you constitute a customer advisory board who can share perspectives into their business challenges so that you can gain insights on how...
Two tips to incorporate the voice of the customer in your story grooming/sprint planning
Constantly talking to your users about their business problems and incorporating those solutions is key to the success off your product and company. There are many ways to incorporate the voice of your users into...
Our favorite(top?) SRE talks
Over the years there have been a bunch of great talks on site reliability and incident response. Below are a few we thought stood out(in no specific order) and is defintely worth a peek.
Learning from Incidents - what to do after you write a postmortem?
For folks who’ve made post mortems more meaningful at your company, it is important that you spread that learning around. A lot of companies have teams that do postmortems really well and a lot of...
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[Kubernetes tip] Prometheus for multi-cluster setups
This tip is for those who are using Prometheus federation to monitor multiple clusters.
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Difference between a team lead and an engineering manager and how to transition between these roles
Transitioning from a team lead role to an engineering manager role is tough and you will experience many changes when transitioning between these two roles. What happens when you become...
How to groom your engineers for engineering management roles
Engineering leadership within companies are constantly looking to create an equitable process to figure out who on a software engineering team gets the opportunity to try management. However, there aren’t...
Interviewing for the role of CTO of an early-stage company? Here is what CEOs look for in their potential CTOs
I recently came across someone who was consulting for a seed-funded startup that had a great team and a great product. He was one of the first few engineers on...
List of 57 open-source time-series databases you can explore
Here is a list of open-source time series databases that you can check out.
The difference between Event Logging and Tracing in Observability
I have been noticing that a lot of folks are often confused between event logging and tracing. In terms of building out a generic SD for devs to report on...
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