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Entitlement and envy seem like two of the most destructive mindsets. The happiest people I know have humility and gratitude. Charity Majors offers up a vulnerable and meaningful perspective on our place in tech, and not thinking too highly of ourselves. charity.wtf/2025/04/28/on-…

How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability? from Honeycomb.io System Status Updates, by Charity Majors honeycomb.io/blog/how-much-…

Have a chillaxing weekend with "InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2025" buff.ly/lMinM0V by Charity Majors & Shane Hastie (via InfoQ)

GitHub Projects Community Fear of deploys is a tech debt you need to fix.

The new O'Reilly Media publication, Open Source Observability, is now available in print! My thanks to my StarTree colleague & co-author Neha Pawar, and to @Honeycomb's Charity Majors for the foreword. For your own free PDF copy: startree.ai/p/oreilly-book…

Using AI to generate code? That's the easy part. Now it's time to focus on production, says Honeycomb.io System Status Updates's CTO Charity Majors. Discover how DevOps needs to level up for this new AI paradigm on LeadDev: leaddev.com/technical-dire…

💡 At #CraftConf, Charity Majors dropped a truth bomb: stop chasing “top talent.” 🏗️ Build boring engineering orgs where everyday devs can move fast, ship, learn, and make an impact.

Daytona Launch Week! Giving Agents the Tools Human Developers Have Always Had

How long do you give it when you start a job and get a sense it's not the right fit? A few weeks? A year? Charity Majors says you probably know within a week. And you should follow your intuition to bail if something doesn't feel right. charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on-…

Just read an insightful piece by Charity Majors about job fit intuition. Key takeaway: You often know within days if a job is right for you—especially as a manager where value alignment is essential. Trust your gut feelings; they're usually right! charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on-…

best stickers at renderatl goes to Honeycomb.io System Status Updates also a very happy honeycomb user when I worked at Equinix Metal

PlanetScale is built for production use cases. We are not going to optimize for vibe coding and these "agentic" development workloads. There are severe trade offs involved and it's not possible to do both. You don't actually need a database server for agentic coding.

In Praise of "Normal" Engineers charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-… via Charity Majors Nothing great is built by one person The key engineering question is >> How do you turn normal engineers into 10x engineering teams? #SoftwareDelivery #GeekCred

My tech week has been 💯 by two of my favorite technology thought leaders Charity Majors In Praise of Normal Engineers charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-… and Martin Fowler Expert Generalists martinfowler.com/articles/exper… Both talk about how to get great results from software engineering teams

I spoke with Honeycomb.io System Status Updates's CTO Charity Majors Here's how Honeycomb uses AI to accelerate engineering: 1. Validate ideas faster with AI prototypes 2. Spin up internal tools on-demand ("disposable software") 3. Designers vibe code interactive prototypes for clearer eng handoff

"If teams own software, then the key job of any engineering leader is to craft high-performing engineering teams. If you must 10x something, 10x this. Build 10x engineering teams." charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-… < good stuff from Charity Majors. I've known one 10x eng, but a few 10x teams

How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability? Part 2: Observability cost drivers and levers of control buff.ly/0IeIV2m (via The New Stack, Honeycomb.io System Status Updates and Charity Majors)

On Dropouts and Bootstraps buff.ly/l6O8QMv (via Charity Majors)

We asked Honeycomb.io System Status Updates CTO Charity Majors (Charity Majors) if AI has changed the way they hire engineers. Here's what she said 👇

Erik Bruckner Here's a fun & pithy essay on the subject by Charity Majors a CTO. "I love that you are discovering basic leadership principles and it is just fucking flooring you, but have you ever cracked a book about management, or talked to another leader? Ever?" bit.ly/4fmjKaL