Charity Majors
Observability, and Testing in Production
Honeycomb, and the argument about unknown unknowns
Rating
85Impact score
Domains
ObservabilityOperationsDistributed systems
Scouting report
Co-founded Honeycomb and made the case that dashboards of pre-aggregated metrics cannot answer questions you did not think to ask, which reframed monitoring into observability and high-cardinality events. Co-wrote Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering, and has been relentlessly, usefully rude about the idea that you can avoid testing in production.
Curator’s note
You do test in production. She just wants you to admit it and instrument it.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Charity Majors by Attribution: CityTV.nl, licensed CC BY 3.0.
Sources
- 01Charity Majors charity.wtf
- 02Observability Engineering honeycomb.io