
O11ycast
Exploring the observability side of software development.
Latest episodes

May 21, 2021 • 37min
Ep. #38, Infrastructure Changes with Andy Davies of Reaktor
In episode 38 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Andy Davies of Reaktor. Their conversation covers the importance of instrumentation, the prevalence of structured logging, and the potential risks of modifying database infrastructure.

Apr 30, 2021 • 31min
Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy
In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain on building scheduling tools, making observability tools accessible to teams, and keeping deploys boring.

Apr 15, 2021 • 28min
Ep. #36, Resilience Engineering with Jacob Scott of Stripe
In episode 36 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jacob Scott of Stripe about the need for SRE teams, prioritizing customer happiness, and the limitations of distributed tracing tools.

Mar 12, 2021 • 34min
Ep. #35, Government Software Systems with Mark Ferlatte of Truss
In episode 35 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Mark Ferlatte of Truss. They discuss government software system failures and successes including Healthcare.gov and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Feb 25, 2021 • 33min
Ep. #34, Diminishing Complexity with Jaana Dogan of AWS
In episode 34 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jaana Dogan of AWS. They discuss Jaana’s career journey, life before observability tools, and reducing system complexity within large organizations.

Jan 29, 2021 • 32min
Ep. #33, Information Accessibility with Katy Farmer of CircleCI
In episode 33 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Katy Farmer of CircleCI. They discuss learned helplessness, understanding complicated systems through direct experience, and championing devs to fail gracefully.

Jan 14, 2021 • 33min
Ep. #32, Managing Hardware with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal
In episode 32 of o11ycast, Liz and Shelby speak with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal. They discuss diversifying the way observability is evangelized, the indicators that an organization has outgrown off-the-shelf tools, and managing hardware.

Dec 23, 2020 • 34min
Ep. #31, Rewarding Curiosity with Ellen Chisa of Dark
In episode 31 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Ellen Chisa of Dark discuss the benefits of making observability tools more accessible, tailoring feedback to individuals, and the many ways software may change in the years to come.

Dec 14, 2020 • 46min
Ep. #30, Harder Conversations with Beau Lyddon of Workday
In episode 30 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Beau Lyddon of Workday about the recent sea change in observability, the shortcomings of metrics, the role of senior engineers, and the responsibilities of corporations.

Nov 19, 2020 • 36min
Ep. #29, Testing in Production with Glen Mailer of CircleCI
In episode 29 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Glen Mailer of CircleCI. They discuss testing in production and rethinking socio-technical systems from the ground up.
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