CHARITY MAJORS | CO-FOUNDER & CEO | HONEYCOMB | @MIPSYTIPSY
ABOUT THE TALK:
Logs, time series metrics, dashboards -- the tools of the LAMP stack era are mature, robust and even somewhat commoditized. But architecture and deployment patterns have revolutionized many times over these past 10-15 years, and the rate of change is still accelerating. Modern infrastructure is fluid, dynamic, chaotic and massively complex, and logs and metrics are straining to usefully address its problems. The mess of hacky glue code and one-offs everywhere is a big SUV that most of modern "monitoring" is busy churning out better buggies, not engines for our cars.
What problems are metrics and logs most fundamentally ill-equipped to address? What alternatives are there? And what comes next?
* Rated "H" for possible hyperbole, strong language.
* * Rated "Honey" for some discussion of how we are attacking the problem set with honeycomb, but this is NOT a sales pitch and I'll tell you all the ways we fall short too.
ABOUT CHARITY:
Charity is the co-founder and CEO of honeycomb.io, where they are contributing to the next generation of observability tooling. (She despises monitoring in all its forms, and is not sure what she did to deserve this.) She has run systems and databases and teams for companies like Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab, and has been on call since she was 17. She likes free software and a nice peaty single malt.
