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The One Where We Geek Out on Being a Field CTO with Liz Fong-Jones
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About our guest:
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with nearly two decades of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
Find our guest on:
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 notes:
- Liz Fong-Jones on On-Call Me Maybe
- QBasic
- Advent of Code
- Dungeons & Dragons (game)
- Factotum (Dungeons & Dragons)
- The Daily Life of a Field CTO by Kai Waehner
- Jessitron
- Martin Dot Net
- Gartner Observability Platforms: Reviews and Ratings
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
- Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
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Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, fellow geeks, 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 have Liz Fong Jones of Honeycomb. Welcome, Liz.
LIZ: G'day, Adri, from Sydney, Australia.
ADRIANA: Thank you for waking up early to record.
LIZ: That's kind of my life these days, given that I work with people from the US and Canada, start early, take a break midday, and then work late to catch the UK.
ADRIANA: Oh, damn. Wow, that is a lot.
LIZ: You know, that's a voluntary choice that I made to move to Australia, so I fully accept that.
ADRIANA: Are you permanently moved to Australia? Because before, I remember, you were splitt