Oxide and Friends Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors
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Jul 11, 2024 
Special guest Charity Majors joins hosts to discuss innovation tokens, balancing boring vs. innovative projects, social media changes, custom storage systems, observability in systems, technology choices, autonomy in decision-making, infrastructure management, domain name negotiations, tool selection, and promoting continuous growth in engineering decisions.
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Honeycomb's Accidental Database
- Charity Majors shares how Honeycomb accidentally built a new database because existing tools didn't fit needs.
- They developed a flexible, no-schema telemetry system inspired by Facebook's Scuba tool.
Observability 2.0's Transformative Power
- Observability 2.0 will transform engineering like TDD did for software quality.
- Fast, interactive querying changes how engineers understand and debug complex systems in production.
Open Source Reveals Values
- Open source exposure allows customers to understand technology and values deeply.
- Being clear about project goals helps future users self-select in or out effectively.