Observability Engineering • Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • GOTO 2022

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:

Charity Majors - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and CTO at Honeycomb @CharityMajors
Liz Fong-Jones - Co- Author of Observability Engineering an Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at Honeycomb @lizthegrey
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).

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

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[keistzenon]

Thank you very useful talk, gave me valuable insight. It's great to see the authors explain their book and give context!

[mdaverde]

Great talk. I can see why companies and developers would have major push back on observability but this re-framing is key for engineers to understand so that their speed to debugging their systems increases. Observability feels like a culture/social change rather than a technical invention. Excited for it

[fbor]

Thanks for sharing that talk. Maybe you could improve the audio quality in the future, so it would be even easier and more pleasant to listen.

[johnofardeal]

I find it really disappointing for someone to take part in a presentation with such a large audience and not invest in a pair of headphones with a decent mic...