Building a Platform to Wrangle Distributed Systems with Charity Majors [DevOps Deployed Ep. 03]

Опубликовано: 08 Октябрь 2024
на канале: DevOps Directive

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Charity Majors shares the history behind Honeycomb, an observability platform to help understand and troubleshoot complex distributed systems. She talks through the motivations for building the company, the process of building and growing it, and provides tons of valuable information for others developing and scaling their own platforms and teams!

https://www.honeycomb.io/

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - What does "DevOps" mean to you?
02:51 - What is Honeycomb?
08:29 - What does "High Cardinality" mean in observability?
09:54 - Describe the Minimum Viable Product at Honeycomb
14:09 - Building the custom data store (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/seconda...)
17:03 - Tech stack and cloud infrastructure
17:46 - Dogfooding at Honeycomb
18:29 - Speed of deployments ("15 min or bust!")
21:40 - Operating as a small team early on
23:39 - Remote vs. in-person tradeoffs
24:05 - Scaling the platform
27:23 - Pagerduty storytime
28:57 - Honeycomb today
30:19 - Team structure + hierarchy
34:46 - Features you are most excited/proudest of
39:23 - Additional lessons learned (interview process)
42:25 - Company culture
44:53 - Advice for aspiring CTOs/Founders (TL;DR: "It's really effin' hard")
25:38 - Where to learn more about Honeycomb?

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