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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News of the week CNCF Blog: Vitess 20 is now Generally Available
Vitess Blog: Announcing Vitess 20
Anthropic Blog: Claude 3.5 Sonnet
KubeCon India 2024 CFP
Apps on Azure Blog: Announcing support of OCI v1.1 specification in Azure Container Registry
VMware Tanzu Blog: Announcing VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7.2: Powering Your Business with Enhanced Performance and Advanced Capabilities
VMware Tanzu Blog: Join the public beta for GenAI on Tanzu Platform today!
CNCF: Adobe End User Journey Report
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”