Level Up

Unlock the secrets of OpenTelemetry, Lambda as a scalable CPU, and building a platform team in a replay of a previous episode. This week we revisit our past episodes with Paul Osman , a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn . At the time of the recording, Paul was a staff Platform Engineer at Honeycomb. In this episode, we dive into telemetry, architecture, and how to build long-term Ops stra...

Scaling and re-platforming your operating systems to meet the scale of your company can be a never ending task. Re-engineering, re-training, and re-tooling; it can quickly become overwhelming. Our guest today discusses his approach to refocusing and building out a technical and decentralized framework in a company that had previously viewed tech as an enabler not a driver of business growth. Andre...

When it comes to scaling up, time is everything, and it never feels like there’s enough. Implementing a strong culture of experimentation can help drive the balance between the speed and standardization needed to optimize growth. Our guest today is Daniel Gebler , the Founder & CTO at Picnic . He discusses how he built a culture of experimentation that enabled him to scale Picnic from a mere i...

By leaning into platform engineering best practices and taking time to learn about what your teams need, you can improve your developer velocity and build strong products faster at any stage of growth. Our guest today is Lawrence Jones , an Engineer at incident.io , who talks about how he has driven engineering efforts through different stages of growth and complexity. Join us as we discuss: Phase...

Identifying what works with your team at a small scale and how that translates as you grow can be one of the most valuable lessons you learn as a leader. Our guest today, John Laban , Co-Founder and CEO of OpsLevel , talks about his experiences growing a team (and a business) and learning how to delegate tasks to the right people at the right time for professional growth across the organization. J...

Stepping into a managerial role is a major change in anyone’s career. But what happens when you decide to step away from a managerial role and back into an individual contributor role? You should apply what you learned as a manager to your IC role! Our guest today, Giuliano Boss i, Principal Engineer for Applications Platform at Shopify , joined to discuss his career transitions from IC to manager...

Hiring and managing your team is an important benchmark when growing your business. It isn’t easy to shift as the one-stop-shop from the individual contributor to recognizing when it is time to not just expand your team but also when to hand off your own responsibilities to those team members. Our guest today, Cai GoGwilt , Co-Founder and CTO at Ironclad , joined to discuss how the growth of your...

As your company grows, keeping teams and their development to scale can be a daunting task for some. Thankfully, there are meaningful and productive ways to keep these growing pains at bay and keep everyone coordinated in their development. Our guest today, Alan Boyce Senior Vice President of Engineering at Sprout Social, Inc , joined us to discuss how team building and development has helped incr...