Changelog Master Feed Honeycomb, Complex Systems, Saving Sanity (Go Time #35)
Charity Majors joined the show to talk about debugging complex systems, using go to save one’s sanity, hiring smart people who can learn, and collectively working to make “on-call” life not miserable.
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Featuring:
- Charity Majors – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Honeycomb :: Powerful, Exploratory Learning with Richer Data
go package libhoney (it’s the APM of the future!)
How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity
Database Reliability Engineering book
Interesting Go Projects and News
Charity wants to give big shout outs (shouts out?) to Naitik Shah and Matt Silverlock!
Implementing a Debugger: The Fundamentals
Pixterm - Draw images in your ANSI terminal with true color
1.8 Release Parties Everywhere
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Brian - Eclipse Che
- Erik - Kube-Lego
- Carlisia - Visual Studio Code
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