Reliability at the Speed of Change

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of observability in maintaining secure and reliable systems, featuring insights from industry leaders at the HumanX Conference.

Engineers charged with maintaining secure and reliable sites and services need to be able to observe what’s going on inside their systems. That observability data helps them spot issues sooner, fix problems faster, and learn from the whole experience. A live conversation from the stage at the HumanX Conference in San Francisco. We Meet: Christine Yen is the Co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb, Jennifer Tejada is the CEO and chairperson of PagerDuty Credits: This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Strong

Guests: Christine Yen, Jennifer Tejada

Topics covered

• observability
• engineering
• reliability
• technology
• live event

Keywords

• observability
• engineering
• reliability
• Honeycomb
• PagerDuty
• HumanX Conference
• San Francisco

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Honeycomb, PagerDuty

Places: San Francisco

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