
O11ycast
Exploring the observability side of software development.
Latest episodes

Sep 12, 2019 • 26min
Ep. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of Intercom
In episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial importance of timely shipping, high-cardinality metrics, and the engineering value of running less software.

Aug 15, 2019 • 24min
Ep. #11, Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina of Gremlin
In episode 11 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Gremlin chaos engineer Ana Medina. They discuss the relevance of breaking things in order to engineer them more efficiently, monitoring vs observability, and chaos engineering at scale.

Jul 18, 2019 • 28min
Ep. #10, Measuring Technical Debt with Bugsnag CEO James Smith
In episode 10 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Bugsnag CEO James Smith. They discuss the seemingly impossible ways an organization can measure technical debt and how they can attempt to reduce it.

Mar 12, 2019 • 40min
Ep. #9, High Performance DevOps with Jez Humble
In episode 9 of o11ycast, Charity and Rachel sit down with Jez Humble, Co-Founder and CTO of DevOps Research and Assessments (acquired by Google since this session was recorded), to discuss DevOps security and how a team’s culture relates to their success.

Jan 17, 2019 • 35min
Ep. #8, Email Ecosystems & APIs with Nylas’ Christine Spang
In episode 8 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel are joined by Nylas Co-Founder and CTO Christine Spang to discuss navigating the complex ecosystem of emails and how Nylas has managed to create an API for it.

Nov 28, 2018 • 33min
Ep. #7, Observability at Asana and Honeycomb
In episode 7 of O11ycast, Charity is joined by fellow Honeycomb team member Michael Wilde along with Asana’s heads of engineering and tech, Cliff Chang and Phips Peter, to discuss how observability has shaped their organizations.

Oct 16, 2018 • 34min
Ep. #6, Customer Reliability Engineering with Google’s Liz Fong-Jones
In episode 6 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel talk to Google developer advocate Liz Fong-Jones about ways to build systems to be more transparent and explainable.

Sep 18, 2018 • 41min
Ep. #5, InfoSec with Gartner’s Anton Chuvakin
In episode 5 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity speak with Anton Chuvakin, Research VP at Gartner for Technical Professionals, about the ways modern companies make, or don’t make, decisions around security.

Aug 2, 2018 • 41min
Ep. #4, Systems Administration with Adam Jacob of Chef
In episode 4 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity ask Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO of Chef, how the culture of DevOps has evolved both for system administrators and the companies they help build.

Jul 23, 2018 • 30min
Ep. #3, Distributed Systems with Paul Biggar of Dark
In episode 3 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity are joined by Paul Biggar, co-founder and CTO of Dark as well as founder of CircleCI, to discuss how microservices and automation have shaped the developer landscape.