Insights

Technical leadership combines leadership skills with technical expertise to not only further and enhance your own technical abilities but also help develop the team around you to attain technical excellence.

Keeping an internal API as readable, maintainable, and as valuable to third parties as possible is no small task. It requires extensive planning and documentation to ensure that new developers can easily understand how the code works and what it does.

As you increase your seniority, part of your impact and performance often includes mentoring and developing others. Or perhaps you see a need to help develop your team, so you’ll find opportunities and needs to mentor other software developers.

Across most industries this year, leaders in all functions are working through difficult prioritization and budget justification exercises. Spending that was previously approved with minimal scrutiny is now being put under the microscope by finance and procurement teams. Software engineering organizations aren’t exempt from these intense audits, but development teams still have products to ship and expectations to meet. Now they’re attempting to pull it off with more limited resources.

Open source developer portal project Backstage hasn’t been on the scene for long. But in that time it has gained popularity quickly. The rate at which it’s added stars on GitHub is telling.

As a leader, onboarding with a new company is hard. The stakes are high–you and your new employer have invested a lot of time and energy into choosing each other–and the objective is complex–quickly go from an unknown outsider to a trusted leader. Oh, and make a positive impact on your team’s trajectory or output while you’re at it.

Downtime sucks (duh) - it means unhappy end users and engineers. Failures and error messages frustrate customers and interrupt engineers (or worse, wake them up).

These days we all feel the pressure of shipping more frequently and keeping up with the demands of our customers.

We’re announcing a $15M Series A funding and OpsLevel’s vision for accelerating software teams with developer portals.