Observability Engineering • Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • GOTO 2022
This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub
Charity Majors - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and CTO at Honeycomb
Liz Fong-Jones - Co- Author of Observability Engineering an Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at Honeycomb @Liz Fong-Jones
George Miranda - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and Head of Ecosystems & Partnerships at Honeycomb
DESCRIPTION
Observability is crucial for developing and understanding the software that powers today’s complex systems. Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda, authors of “Observability Engineering” show you how to manage software at scale, deliver complex cloud native applications and systems, and the benefit observability has across the entire software development lifecycle.
You’ll also learn the impact observability has on organizational culture (and vice versa).
The interview is based on Charity’s, Liz’ and Goerge’s book “Observability Engineering“:
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
03:30 The Evolution of observability engineering
09:12 Monitoring vs observability
18:05 Cardinality
24:02 Definition of observability engineering
29:50 Case study: Slack
35:05 How does observability relate to DevOps, SRE & cloud-native?
42:10 Main takeaways from the book
50:08 Outro
Read the full transcription of the interview here:
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