Charity Majors

cofounder and CTO of honeycomb.io; pioneered modern observability. co-author of O'Reilly books "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering", now wrapping up the 2nd ed. loves free software, free speech, and peaty single malts. Click to read Charity Majors, a Substack with thousands of subscribers.

Popular posts: 9
Total points: 2,003
HN comments: 1,309
Rank: #839 personal

Visit charity.wtf → RSS feedOn Hacker News Feb 2016 – Jun 2025

Career & Management 9 Tech Industry & Business 3

Most points Most discussed Most cited Newest

How to Survive an Acquisition

2016276 points127 comments Career & Management details

Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse.

How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?

2022121 points155 comments Career & Management details

How can you tell the companies who are earnestly trying to improve apart from the ones who sound all polished and healthy from the outside, whilst rotting on the inside?

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

2018cited by 17Career & Management details

Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story).