About this episode

Charity Majors discusses the future of software observability and her work at Honeycomb.io.

Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, where she pioneered the concept of modern observability for distributed systems. Before Honeycomb, she spent years at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of "Observability Engineering" and "Database Reliability Engineering" (O'Reilly). She writes at charity.wtf. Whatever she and Scott are planning, they are gonna observability the heck out of it.

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Guest: Charity Majors

Topics covered

• observability
• software engineering
• distributed systems
• technology
• data reliability

Keywords

• observability
• software
• Honeycomb
• Charity Majors
• distributed systems
• engineering
• data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Honeycomb.io, Parse, Facebook, Linden Lab

Books & works: Observability Engineering, Database Reliability Engineering

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