Episode 004: DevOps and Creativity with Charity Majors

Greater Than Code

• Episode: Episode 004: DevOps and Creativity with Charity Majors
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Published: 2016-10-21 04:41

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr | Sam Livingston-Gray | David Brady | Astrid Countee Guest Starring: Charity Majors charity.wtf Honeycomb.io Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to “The Hot Mess Podcast...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:54 – Charity Majors’ Introduction / Listener Question: “What is your superhero origin story?” (~Donald Plummer) 02:54 – Operations and Creativity 06:37 – Hiring People for Operations Commandos, Infantry, and Police 07:35 – Looking Back on Chaos 10:00 – “Problems of Success” Jessica Kerr: Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say No (Spectrum of Risk Article) 11:32 – Bootcamp Graduates and Startup Culture 15:44 – “Cult-y Companies” Dunbar's Number We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! Thank you, Thomas Peter Berntsen, for your support! Thanks, @marshian for playing the Van Halen brown M&M “Guess the Reference!” game! 19:19 – Microservices Conway’s Law 26:41 – “Serverless" We are offering sponsorship-per-episode opportunities for individuals, companies, and conferences! Whether you are hiring, selling conference tickets, or have a product or project that you want to share with the community, you can take a 30-60 second ad out at the beginning of the show and put an ad on the episode you sponsor! Get in touch with our show manager, Mandy at [email protected] for more details. 29:55 – What should software engineers should be doing to learn more about operations? “Put yourself in rotation...Expose yourself to the consequences!” ~ Charity Majors 39:01 – Misogyny in Tech   Takeaways: Astrid: It’s really important to understand operations. Sam: Actually understanding your dependencies still applies in a serverless architecture. Coraline: We are all trying to work to make tech better in our own ways. Dave: The system is the source of the power that we have to use to break the system because the system is broken. Charity: The intersection of tech and human issues. Transcript: DAVID:  Good morning and welcome to The Hot Mess Podcast. I'm David Brady and I'm happy to host today. JESSICA:  This podcast is not a hot mess yet, it's a Podcast-Tron. CORALINE:  I'm pretty sure that I got corrected on our first time out that the podcast is called Greater Than Code and I don't know why I have to keep reminding everyone of this fact. SAM:  Greater Than Code, what fun is that? JESSICA:  It's a lot of fun. DAVID:  Jessica is with us here today -- Jessica Kerr. JESSICA:  Yes, I am, and thank you Coraline for the correction. Right, Sam? SAM:  Absolutely, and also with us this morning is Coraline Ada Ehmke. CORALINE:  Hi, everybody. I am very happy to also be here today with Astrid. ASTRID:  Thanks, Coraline. And I'm happy to introduce our guest today which is Charity Majors. Charity is a cofounder and CTO of a new startup focused on making machine data explorable and delightful. Before that, she was a Production Engineering Manager at Facebook where she spent three and a half years working on Parse, both pre and post-acquisition, and she also spent several years at Linden Lab working on the infrastructure that powers Second Life. Hi, Charity. CHARITY:  Hi, I am so happy to be here this morning. This is an amazing podcast. I had so much fun going through your archive. I love that you publish transcripts. This is a trend that I hope that more and more people will pick up. I'm super excited to be here and good morning. DAVID:  Normally, when we start off with a guest, we like to get an introduction on them and Astrid gave a great bio on you. We also, in the middle of the show, introduce a guest question and Donald Plummer actually ties it all neatly together. He has a question for you which is, "What is your superhero origin story?" My understanding is that you were bitten by a radioactive bee and fell into a vat of acid. ASTRID:  While playing the piano. JESSICA:  Then giving birth to dragons. [Laughter]