Charity is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab, and the co-author of Database Reliability Engineering. "With distributed systems, you don't care about the health of the system, you care about the health of the event or the slice." In this episode we cover her seminal blog on the Engineer/Manager Pendulum and the great things the team at Honeycomb.io is doing for Observability and her amazing scotch/bourbon collection. This interview was truly a joy to do, Charity is brilliant, kind, and is truly a one of a kind part of our community. I am glad i made a new friend in Charity! Sponsor Link: Solo.io Global configuration and traffic management for federated, multi-cluster API gateway environments
Timeline / Topic:
00:11 - Solo.io (Sponsored Link)
00:45 - Charity explains What is honeycomb and what does it do for you?
03:07 - Charity's journey and why she and team started Honeycomb.io
06:05 - Bubble-ups - a great tool in Honeycomb's arsenal.
08:44 - The Engineer/Manager Pendulum origin and why Charity wrote it.
18:44 - Charity and the Godfathers (Beda and McLuckie)
21:14 - Scotch... Bourbon... and Charity's absolute mastery of both!
25:06 - Work Charity is most proud of.
Episode Links:
Honeycomb.io
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Blog post
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