Charity is a co-founder and engineer at Honeycomb, a startup that blends the speed of time series with the raw power of rich events to give you interactive, iterative debugging of complex systems. She has worked at companies like Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab, as a systems engineer and engineering manager, but always seems to end up responsible for the databases. Loves free speech, free software and a nice peaty single malt.
Follow Charity's personal Blog, on Twitter @mipsytipsy and her Company Honeycomb
Talks I've Given
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Keynote: Observability-Driven Development
Featuring Charity Majors
TDD is table stakes for any good team, but it’s not enough: these days you need observability-driven design and development. Tests are great but your code isn’t baked til it touches real services, real data, real network hops, and real users, and you should accept no substitute.
How can you...
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Keynote: Keep Calm and Carry On: Scaling Your Org With Microservices
Featuring Charity Majors
Ask people about their experience rolling out microservices, and one theme dominates: engineering is the easy part, people are super hard! Everybody knows about Conway's Law, everybody knows they need to make changes to their organisation to support a different product model, but what are...
sre devops on-call operations observability keynote scaling