cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Charity Majors
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my favorite part is at the end, fwiw:
"Power naturally drifts towards managers over time, and engineers could stand to wrench it back and assert their own authority a bit more often.
But there will always be something broken, flaky or slow. You will always be a little mad at technology."
"Maybe we should work harder on noticing the wins and celebrating the progress we do make. Maybe we should remind ourselves that these are pretty great problems to have, all things considered.
And then maybe go outside and touch grass."
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I have a not-so-secret love for advice columns. Which is why I just started writing one for Stack Overflow, every other Friday for the next three months.
First column up now -- "Paging Charity! How do I get my leaders to stop running teams into the ground?"
stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/12/w...
Most of my career, save the last 9 yrs, has been operations and support. Keep things running - document, manage, support, secure - long after the Idea Guys trumpet their accomplishments and move on.
So many tire fires. So much janitorial work.
Thank you for this graphic, Charity. I feel seen.
I'm playing with implementing wide events (a la honeycomb / as described by @charity.wtf )... on Android
The unit of work I'm looking at is "ui update". It's a lot more tricky than it might seem.
What do I mean by UI update?
