
The future of observability with Charity Majors
11/18/20 • 28 min
Charity Majors is the CTO of Honeycomb. Listen in to learn about what "observability" is and how your team can slice and dice your way to higher uptime.
Charity discusses figuring out how to talk about observability before it was an industry term, why many organizations still don't understand it, and why monitoring and logging will soon be rendered obsolete.
We close out with a fun conversation on where we'll be in 100 years: Will everything be AI, or will there always be someone with a wrench figuring this out?
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Charity Majors is the CTO of Honeycomb. Listen in to learn about what "observability" is and how your team can slice and dice your way to higher uptime.
Charity discusses figuring out how to talk about observability before it was an industry term, why many organizations still don't understand it, and why monitoring and logging will soon be rendered obsolete.
We close out with a fun conversation on where we'll be in 100 years: Will everything be AI, or will there always be someone with a wrench figuring this out?
Links mentioned in the episode include:
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Mrinal Wadhwa is the CTO at Ockam. Listen in to learn why secure communication in IoT is the scariest thing you're not thinking about.
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Stay tuned until the end for Mrinal's take on which connected devices in your home you should go unplug right now.
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