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Ep. #30, Harder Conversations with Beau Lyddon of Workday

In episode 30 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Beau Lyddon of Workday about the recent sea change in

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Ep. #29, Testing in Production with Glen Mailer of CircleCI

In episode 29 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Glen Mailer of CircleCI. They discuss testing in production

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Ep. #28, People Problems with Austin Parker of Lightstep

In episode 28 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Austin Parker of Lightstep. They discuss rethinking human error, purposeful

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Identifying Hidden Dependencies

Learn how Honeycomb improved the reliability of our Zookeeper, Kafka, and stateful storage systems through terminating nodes on purpose.

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Embedding Observability Into Your Engineering Culture

How can you create a safe culture that enables engineers to learn, try, and test? The data unlocked by observability

Engineering Best PracticesObservability

Cultivating Production Excellence

Taming the complex distributed systems is not just changing tools and techniques. It also requires changing who is involved in

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Fast & Simple: Observing Code & Infra Deployments at Honeycomb

In this talk, you'll learn about the architecture and operational practices used by an engineering team of less than a

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Progressive Delivery: Using Feature Flags & Observability to Ship Confidently

Progressive delivery lets you see whether or not new changes will benefit users before they’re really released. This webinar explores

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Progressive Delivery: Using Feature Flags & Observability to Ship Confidently

Progressive delivery lets you see whether or not new changes will benefit users before they’re really released. This webinar explores

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Ep. #25, Reliability First with Amy Tobey of Blameless

In episode 25 of O11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Amy Tobey of Blameless. They explore the evolution of the

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Ep. #24, Beyond Code with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly

In episode 24 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly. They discuss feature flags, value stream

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Ask an SRE Panel

Follow along as SRE leaders from Slack, Fastly, Catchpoint, and Autodesk discuss defining SRE, avoiding pitfalls, managing incident anxiety, informing

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