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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Charity Majors

Charity Majors is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab. She is also the co-author of Database Reliability Engineering.\\xa0

Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, a company dedicated to building production engineering and observability products

\\u201cWith distributed systems, you don\\u2019t care about the health of the system, you care about the health of the event or the slice.\\u201d

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Episode Summary

\\u201cOur [systems engineers] expertise is around everything from performance and optimization to capacity, projections and provisioning.\\u201d

\\u201cOps teams have a dark sense of humor. In my experience, they also tend to have the most cohesive teams out of all engineering teams. And i think its because they walk through the fire together.\\u201d

\\u201cI think that new managers need to commit to it [management] for about 2 years. That\\u2019s about how long it takes for your brain to rewire itself and learn how to build that inner voice that you can trust that tells you if you\\u2019re doing well or not.\\u201d

\\u201cI wanted to write go code for 2 years straight. That\\u2019s all I wanted to do after Facebook. Just heads down, write software!\\u201d

\\u201cLooking at the way we build software now its so painful and its so inefficient and it doesn\\u2019t have to be. The biggest obstacle I see between us as an industry and a better way is that we\\u2019ve come to believe that this is just how it is.\\u201d

\\u2014Charity Majors

\\u201cBasically in a large site with tens of thousands of servers, every day something is breaking.\\u201d

\\u2014Grant Ingersoll

Additional Resources

Ep. 4 Goldman Sachs Saved My Tech Career, with Camille Fournier

What is observability and cardinality? https://thenewstack.io/observability-a-3-year-retrospective/

Learn more about honeycomb.io \\u2013 https://www.honeycomb.io/

Check out honeycomb.io blog \\u2013 https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/

Read Charity\\u2019s blog \\u2013 charity.wtf

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