Observability & Engineering Management, with Charity Majors

Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io. She pioneered the concept of modern Observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse (acquired by Facebook), then subsequently at Facebook, and at Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly). She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.

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Links from the interview

• Honeycomb.io

• O'Reilly Book: Observability Engineering

• O'Reilly Book: Database Reliability Engineering

• Charity's blog site: charity.wtf

• Charity Blog: Questionable Advice: "My boss says we don't need any engineering managers. Is he right?"

• Daniel H. Pink book: "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"

• In which, "He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live."

• Charity blog on Stack Overflow: "Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you"

• In which she talks about how the tech industry is an apprenticeship industry.

• Charity Majors in the Google Cloud Next 2024 Developer Keynote

• honeycomb.io blog: "How Time Series Databases Work—And Where They Don't" by Alex Vondrak

• honeycomb.io blog: "Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store" by Alex Vondrak

Links from the post-interview chat

• CNCF Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

• CNCF Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) on GitHub

• Julia Evans Blog

• Wizard Zines by Julia Evans

• "Help! I Have a Manager!" zine by Julia Evans

• Aja Hammerly aka "thagomizer" blog

• "The Toaster Parable"

• "Manager Toolkit: Manage The Person In Front Of You"

• "Manager Toolkit: Useful Manager Phrases for 1:1s"

• "Manager Toolkit: You Talk, I Type"