Podcast Episodes featuring Charity Majors

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Episode 195: Ad-hoc promotion and quitting a huge company with Charity Majors

Soft Skills Engineering - February 03, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 250 ratings
We’re excited to have special guest Charity Majors on the show! Charity is the CTO and former CEO of Honeycomb. She has worked at Second Life, Parse, Facebook, and more. She blogs at charity.wtf. Dave, Jamison, and Charity answer these questions: I’ve had the role of tech lead informally for t...

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Ep 93 - Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) of @honeycombio on Observability: You Keep Using that Word...

DiscoPosse Podcast - January 03, 2020 18:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 233 ratings
Charity Majors (https://charity.wtf)  is a returning guest to the podcast and someone whom I thoroughly respect and enjoy having a conversation with.  As the co-founder of Honeycomb (https://honeycomb.io), Charity is leading her team to tackle some exciting challenges and share the value of obse...

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Troubleshooting Systems through Observability with Charity Majors

Software Engineering Unlocked - November 19, 2019 08:19 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Links: Honeycomb Charity's website Christine Yen: Co-founder of honeycomb Post on engineering management: the pendulum or the ladder Paper about Scuba - Facebook's Scuba data management system for real-time analysis   Show notes: We start of by Charity explaining why she founded honeycom...

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Troubleshooting and Monitoring Systems through Observability – with Charity Majors

Software Engineering Unlocked - November 19, 2019 08:19 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Links: Honeycomb Charity's website Christine Yen: Co-founder of honeycomb Post on engineering management: the pendulum or the ladder Paper about Scuba - Facebook's Scuba data management system for real-time analysis   Show notes: We start of by Charity explaining why she founded...

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94: The real 11 reasons I don't hire you - Charity Majors

Test & Code - November 18, 2019 17:15 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
You've applied for a job, maybe lots of jobs. Depending on the company, you've gotta get through: a resume review a coding challange a phone screen maybe another code example an in person interview If you get the job, and you enjoy the work, awesome, congratulations. If you don't get the job, it'...

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ServerlessTalk - S02 Episode 2 – Discussing Observability with Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors

ServerlessTalk Podcast - August 05, 2019 22:22 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
We have a super special guest for our second episode of season two. The veritable Charity Majors, also known as MipsyTipsy on Twitter. She’s the CTO of Honeycomb, former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab, and the co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering.”  B...

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Charity Majors on what is observability & how to measure the quality of microservices

Semaphore Uncut - July 09, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
We’re chatting with Honeycomb's CTO and coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering Charity Majors about observability and going beyond logs and dashboards to better understand the systems we build. On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re ...

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#52 Charity Majors encourages us to strive, going back and forth between roles

Software Developers Journey - June 03, 2019 23:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Charity first took us through the pain of being a CEO and explained us why she chose to focus on tech again after a while. She then explained how she felt into code instrumentalisation during her time at Parse and how this became her idea for Honeycomb.io. We then went back to her early years, h...

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Avoiding the All-Senior Trap, Part 2 With Charity Majors

Scaling Software Teams - May 20, 2019 17:45 - 18 minutes
Charity Majors is the CTO at Honeycomb, a startup that builds observability for distributed systems, and this week, we’re diving into part two of our conversation with her. Charity’s team is on a mission to make monitoring less cumbersome so that being on-call can suck less. In this episode, we...

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Avoiding the All-Senior Trap, Part 2 With Charity Majors

Scaling Software Teams - May 20, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Charity Majors is the CTO at Honeycomb, a startup that builds observability for distributed systems, and this week, we’re diving into part two of our conversation with her. Charity’s team is on a mission to make monitoring less cumbersome so that being on-call can suck less. In this episode, we...

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Hiring for Strengths, Not Lack of Weaknesses, Part 1 With Charity Majors

Scaling Software Teams - May 13, 2019 17:45 - 27 minutes
Charity Majors is the CTO at Honeycomb, a startup that builds observability for distributed systems. Occasionally, we have a conversation that’s so much fun, we need to break it into two episodes. This is one of those weeks. We recently sat down with Charity, and the result is one of the most th...

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Charity Majors: Deploys Are Just The Beginning

Maintainable - May 13, 2019 12:04 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Robby speaks with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb about her work as an Infrastructure Engineer, how Honeycomb was created, all about working and testing in production, and why software engineers should be "on call" for their code. Helpful links Follow Charity on Twitter Honeycomb The Honeyc...

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Hiring for Strengths, Not Lack of Weaknesses, Part 1 With Charity Majors

Scaling Software Teams - May 13, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Charity Majors is the CTO at Honeycomb, a startup that builds observability for distributed systems. Occasionally, we have a conversation that’s so much fun, we need to break it into two episodes. This is one of those weeks. We recently sat down with Charity, and the result is one of the most th...

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Learn How to Push Through Your Fears to Become a Better IT Professional with Charity Majors

IT Career Energizer - April 26, 2019 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
GUEST BIO: Charity is CEO at honeycomb.io.  She is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse and Linden Lab always seeming to end up responsible for databases.  Charity is also the co-author of O’Reilly’s Database Reliability Engineering and a regular conference speaker. EPISO...

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Episode 52: Charity Majors of Honeycomb.io - Onwards to Observability

DevOps Radio - April 10, 2019 15:09 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratings
Guest host Karen Taggart and host Michael Neale sit down with Charity Majors of Honeycomb.io to discuss Charity's evangelical zeal for testing in production and throwing off old ways of thinking about observability.

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Episode 9 - Charity Majors - Honeycomb.io

On-Call Nightmares Podcast - January 31, 2019 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Infrastructure Week, Episode 2! Charity and Jay sit down for a discussion on her career and a deep dive into a database incident. You'll get some interesting thoughts on how monitoring has changed in operations. Charity is cofounder and CEO of Honeycomb.io, a startup aimed at debuggi...

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Ep 63 - Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) on Startup life balance, Being an Engineer Manager and much more

DiscoPosse Podcast - January 24, 2019 18:22 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 233 ratings
Join us for a very exciting and open discussion on the conundrum of personal career advancement in engineering, work/life balance, being an engineer manager, startup challenges and more.  Charity brings an honest voice from experience to the show and this will be a must-listen, especially if you...

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019 - Test in Production with Charity Majors

CoRecursive: Coding Stories - August 31, 2018 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
"Metrics and Dashboards can die in a fire and every software engineer should be on-call" - Charity Majors Today's Interview is with Charity Majors. We talk about how to make it easier to debug production issues in today's world of complicated distributed systems.  A warning, There is some expl...

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39: The Ugly Side of Being Beautiful with Charity Majors

Miss Style, Strength and Grace with Deidra Murphy - April 05, 2018 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Meet Deidra’s guest, Charity Majors, Mrs. Idaho America 2015 and Mrs. Of The America’s 2017, who also placed in the top 6 at Mrs. World 2018. As a certified health coach and personal trainer, Charity has journeyed with her own health ups and downs, but uses her struggles to help train and coach ...

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Hot Takes With Charity Majors, Jill Jubinski, and Eric Sigler

Arrested DevOps - February 26, 2018 13:55 ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
An exploration of everything wrong with DevOps today. Pushing the limit of the [explicit] tag.

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The Engineer - Manager Pendulum with Charity Majors

SimpleLeadership Podcast - October 09, 2017 02:27 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Charity Majors, co-founder of Honeycomb.io, discusses the engineers who become managers and go back to being engineers and how awesome they are.

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The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom - June 29, 2017 16:43 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
In this chat with Intercom software engineer Ingrid Epure, Honeycomb co-founder and veteran infrastructure engineer Charity Majors explains when your startup actually needs a dedicated ops team, why engineers need to get comfortable with failure, the role cross-pollination plays in a he...

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Episode 9: Honeycomb with Charity Majors

Code Monkey Talks - April 07, 2017 03:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Charity Majors, founder & CEO of Honeycomb joins us to discuss exploratory learning through rich data, as well as news about Blue Origin, FaunaDB, Resin.io Credits Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/gigs_n_contest/rolemusic_-_gigs_n_contest_-...

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Startups With Charity Majors & Nicole Forsgren

Arrested DevOps - March 04, 2017 19:59 ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Bridget chats about startups with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) and Nicole Forsgren (DORA)

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Episode 004: DevOps and Creativity with Charity Majors

Greater Than Code - October 21, 2016 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
00:16 – Welcome to “The Hot Mess Podcast...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:54 – Charity Majors’ Introduction / Listener Question: “What is your superhero origin story?” ~Donald Plummer (https://twitter.com/dplummer) 02:54 – Operations and Creativity 06:37 – Hiring People for Operations Comman...

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Who Owns Your Availability? With Charity Majors and Pete Cheslock

Arrested DevOps - March 25, 2016 20:47 ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Who owns your availability? Recent events in the npm community have rekindled the perennial discussion about dependency management and controlling points of potential failure. Long-time operations professionals Charity Majors (Hound) and Pete Cheslock (Threat Stack) join the ADO crew to discuss.

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Building an Ops Team With Charity Majors, Patrick McDonnell, and MCR

Arrested DevOps - July 29, 2015 15:31 ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Bridget and Trevor are joined by Charity Majors (Facebook), as well as Mike Rembetsy and Patrick McDonnell (Etsy) for a frank discussion on what goes into building a great ops team.