Best Practices Dont Exist with Paul Osman

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 11 a.m.

b'Paul Osman is a lead instrumentation engineer at Honeycomb.io, an observability platform that helps engineers get a deeper understanding of their production environments. He brings more than 20 years of tech experience to the role, having worked as a senior engineering manager at Under Armour, a platform engineer manager at PagerDuty, director of platform engineering at 500px, a developer evangelist at SoundCloud, and a web development lead at Mozilla, among other positions.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Paul as they discuss what exactly it is that a lead instrumentation engineer does, how Paul initially didn\\u2019t like serverless at first and why he does now, why Paul believes in using the least amount of technology when possible, why Corey thinks that setting your database to your local timezone is a terrible idea, how there is no such thing as best practices that work for everyone, Paul\\u2019s favorite programming languages, what Paul thinks the right tech stack is, how Paul approaches computing languages he\\u2019s not well-versed in, and more.'