Episode Details

About our guest:

Charity is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Before this she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab on infrastructure and developer tools, and always seemed to wind up running the databases. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering and Observability Engineering, and loves free speech, free software, and single malt scotch.

Find our guest on:

• X (Twitter)
• LinkedIn

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela

Show Links:

• Honeycomb.io
• The Four Tendencies, by Gretchen Rubin
• Choose Boring Culture, by Charity Majors (blog)
• Helicopter Management, by Charity Majors (blog)
• Choose Boring Technology, by Dan McKinley (blog)
• The Advantage, by Patrick Lencioni
• Questionable Advice: "My Boss Says We Don't Need Any Engineering Managers. Is He Right?" by Charity Majors (blog)
• Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
• The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, by Charity Majors (blog)
• The Hierarchy is Bullshit, by Charity Majors (blog)
• Okta
• Charity's Calendly for career advice
• Parse, Inc.
• Honeycomb Pollinators Slack
• DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
• OpenTelemetry specification has gone GA

Additional Links:

• Observability Engineering (book)
• Database Engineering (book)

Transcript:

ADRIANA: Hey, y'all, welcome to Geeking Out. The podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery. DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today...I am so excited to have Charity Majors of Honeycomb on! Welcome, Charity.

CHARITY: Yay! Thank you for having me, Adriana.