Charity Majors
Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io. She pioneered the concept of modern Observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O’Reilly). She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.
What handcrafted servers taught us about handcrafted code
Whether AI-generated code should be treated as disposable, what the shift to immutable infrastructure taught us, and how those lessons apply to the way teams write and maintain code today.
The twin mandate: What leaders still don’t get about observability
Learn why many teams miss observability’s full potential and how leaders can unlock exceptional engineering performance through it.
In praise of “normal engineers”
Why building an engineering org that enables "normal" engineers to thrive is a bigger advantage than chasing top talent.
Is AI code sabotaging its own ROI case?
Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb, argues that the biggest value from AI is from rethinking how teams operate.
On call does not have to suck
In this talk, Charity discusses the idea that being on call is a burden when in fact being on call can be a great time to unleash your curiosity, learn new skills, and develop/refine your technical judgment.
Great engineers are made by great engineering teams
Learn how to build teams that nurture great engineers.
Engineering manager archetypes and career paths
Exploring seven common leadership scenarios
Career development for engineering managers
What steps can you take to be a better leader?
Habits of highly-performing teams
CTO Charity Majors joined us at #LeadDevLive to talk about everything that went into building a high-performing team at Honeycomb.
