Level-up Podcast

In this replay of a previous episode, unlock the secrets of OpenTelemetry, Lambda as a scalable CPU, and building a platform team. We revisit our past episode 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 OpenTelemetry, architecture, and how to build long-term Ops strategies.

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 can all 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, rather than a driver of business growth.

When it comes to scaling up, time is everything, and it feels like there’s never enough. Implementing a solid culture of experimentation can deliver the right balance between speed and standardization needed to optimize growth. Our latest guest on Level-Up is Daniel Gebler, the Founder & CTO at Picnic. He discusses how he built a culture of experimentation that enabled him to scale Picnic from an idea to over 3,000 employees and how the culture continues to drive growth by optimizing the developer experience.

Our latest guest, Lawrence Jones, Engineer at incident.io, shares how he has driven engineering efforts through different stages of growth and complexity.

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

Stepping into a managerial role is a significant change in anyone’s career. But what happens when you step away from a managerial position and back into an individual contributor (IC) role?

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 responsibilities to those team members.

As your company grows, keeping teams and their development to scale can be a daunting task. Thankfully, there are meaningful and productive ways to keep these growing pains at bay and ensure everyone is coordinated in their development.