Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) - S02E03
Observability - a devtools discussion with Charity Majors (Honeycomb). Episode 3 (Season 2) of the Console DevTools Podcast.
Console DevTools · David Mytton, Charity Majors
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Show Notes
In this episode we speak to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb, an observability tool for distributed systems. We discuss why observability is based around events and not metrics, how developers should think about achieving appropriately observable systems, why Honeycomb implemented their own distributed columnar data store, and how you can delete most of your alerts by implementing service level objectives.
About Charity Majors
Charity Majors is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Prior to this she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Labs. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering.
Other things mentioned:
- MongoDB
- Postgres
- Scuba
- High cardinality
- Druid
- Kafka
- AWS Lambda
- Zookeeper
- Appropriate observability
- Akita Software
- Sourcegraph
- Charity.wft
- Honeycomb blog
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Recorded: 2021-11-03.