Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, shares insights on Parse's acquisition by Facebook, observability, devops, deploying on Fridays, and the significance of team safety and celebrating failures for success.
Honeycomb released a query assistant to simplify the process of building queries and provide a more intuitive experience.
Charity Majors highlights the importance of autonomy, mastery, and purpose in one's career to drive happiness and success.
Deep dives
Honeycomb's New Query Assistant
Honeycomb recently released a query assistant, which simplifies the process of building queries. The query assistant allows users to use natural language and compose queries in a more user-friendly way. This feature is designed to make it easier for users to navigate and use Honeycomb's query builder, providing a more intuitive and streamlined experience.
Observability for LLAMS with Honeycomb
Honeycomb is actively exploring the intersection of observability and LLAMS (Language Models and Systems). They believe that LLAMS hold the potential to significantly improve the development and visibility of AI applications. By leveraging LLAMS, developers can gain deeper insights into their systems, detect patterns and anomalies more effectively, and enhance their understanding of complex AI architectures.
The Second Half of Your Engineering Career
Charity Majors emphasizes the importance of the second half of one's engineering career, particularly the decision between pursuing a management role or continuing as an individual contributor. She advises engineers to focus on developing their own skills, finding fulfillment in their work, and continuously checking in with themselves to ensure they are on the right path. Charity also highlights the significance of autonomy, mastery, and purpose in one's career to drive happiness and success.
Deploying on Fridays and Shortening Cycle Times
Charity discusses the practice of deploying on Fridays and emphasizes the need for good engineering judgment and mastery of the deployment process. The goal is not simply to deploy on Fridays, but to develop a fast and reliable deployment cycle where engineers take ownership of their code and continuously verify its success. By shortening the deployment cycle, teams can improve their software's quality, increase their productivity, and gain a better understanding of the impact of their changes.
In this episode, I spoke with Charity Majors, who is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, a popular observability platform.
We had a wide-ranging conversation about Parse (and its acquisition by Facebook), observability, devops and why you should deploy on Fridays (but you still need to apply good engineering sense!).
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