Charity Majors is a prominent voice in DevOps and operations, advocating for strong operational ownership and better production tooling. She writes about observability, engineering culture, and why operations is a critical, respected engineering discipline.
105 articles from this blog
A defense of operations (ops) in tech, arguing it's not just toil and criticizing the DevOps movement's failure to connect devs with production.
A pragmatic take on Friday and holiday deploy freezes, arguing they are a necessary hack for teams lacking robust observability, not a virtue.
The author argues that 2025 marks AI's transition from experimental tech to mainstream, foundational technology in developer tools, similar to cloud computing's shift in 2010.
A software engineer explains their decision to stay on Substack for blogging, prioritizing community engagement and reducing writing friction over platform controversies.
A tech blogger explains their decision to migrate from WordPress to Substack, citing platform friction and the shift in tech writing communities.
A critique of how 'observability' has been misunderstood and misapplied in the tech industry, arguing it's become a meaningless buzzword.
A critique of the 'pillars of observability' as a marketing term, arguing for a focus on technical 'signals' like traces, metrics, and logs instead.
The author seeks community input on observability practices and software buying strategies for a tech book update.
Author seeks advice from experienced software buyers for a new 'Observability Governance' section in the upcoming second edition of 'Observability Engineering'.
A retrospective on the challenging, multi-year migration of the Parse API from Ruby on Rails to Golang, detailing the technical hurdles and solutions.
A critique of the '10x engineer' myth, arguing for the value of 'normal' engineers and the complexity of measuring software development productivity.
A former Silicon Valley engineer reflects on the bias against computer science graduates and the culture of glorifying self-taught, college-dropout developers.
A tech founder reflects on using Twitter for technical discourse, product development, and personal motivation, while acknowledging its addictive nature.
A critique of the "Observability 3.0" label and a discussion on the evolution from multi-pillar to unified storage models in software telemetry.
A tech leader rethinks their silence on corporate DEI, arguing that communication of values is essential for accountability, not just branding.
A critique of semantic versioning in observability marketing, arguing that terms like 'Observability 2.0' describe a real technical shift despite overuse.
A critique of Paul Graham's 'founder mode' concept, analyzing leadership advice and the mythmaking around tech founders.
Explains the core technical shift from multi-tool Observability 1.0 to a unified, event-based Observability 2.0.
Analyzes the tech industry's talent retention strategies, using Google's $2.7B re-hire as a starting point, and argues for moving beyond bidding wars.
The article argues for versioning observability concepts, distinguishing between traditional 'three pillars' (1.0) and modern event-based (2.0) approaches.
