In this episode we speak to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb, an observability tool for distributed systems. We discuss why observability is based around events and not metrics, how developers should think about achieving appropriately observable systems, why Honeycomb implemented their own distributed columnar data store, and how you can delete most of your alerts by implementing service level objectives.About Charity MajorsCharity Majors is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Prior to this she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Labs. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering.Other things mentioned:MongoDBPostgresScuba High cardinalityDruidKafkaAWS LambdaZookeeperAppropriate observabilityAkita SoftwareSourcegraphCharity.wftHoneycomb blogLet us know what you think on Twitter:https://twitter.com/consoledotdevhttps://twitter.com/davidmyttonhttps://twitter.com/mipsytipsyOr by email: [email protected] ConsoleConsole is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. Sign up for free at: https://console.devRecorded: 2021-11-03.

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