Code Runs the World - But No One Understands It | Scalyr CEO Christine Heckart

Published: July 2, 2019, 8:45 a.m.

“The services that we use, they seem so simple, because everything is one touch, one click, one swipe” says Scalyr CEO Christine Heckart.  “But what is happening underneath to give you that very simple, elegant experience is an extremely complex labyrinth of interconnected microservices.”

“And it has become it has become so intertwined, so interdependent, so complex, that the average human brain - any human brain, even an extraordinary one - can’t keep the whole system in their head in real time because it’s always changing.”

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