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.
120 articles from this blog
Analysis of why Clickhouse is winning the observability wars with columnar storage, handling massive data scales better than competitors.
A defense of AI mandates in tech organizations, arguing they can be effective funding mechanisms for coordinated change.
Explores the ethics of AI use, arguing that AI is just technology and engagement is necessary to govern it responsibly.
Charity Majors argues that AI-generated code requires more engineering discipline, not less, drawing parallels to the shift from server pets to immutable infrastructure.
Explores the growing divide between AI enthusiasts and skeptics in tech, highlighting the risks of uncritical adoption and communication breakdowns.
Analysis of the growing divide between AI enthusiasts and skeptics in tech, exploring their conflicting views on AI's impact on software development.
Critique of the 'three pillars' observability model, arguing it destroys data context and relationships, making AI and engineering insights harder.
Explains why context and relationships in observability data are crucial, arguing the three pillars model destroys data value.
An SRE reflects on how their perspective on generative AI's role in SRE work has shifted dramatically over the past year.
A reflective analysis on SREs and generative AI, one year after a keynote at SRECon25, arguing the need for SREs to engage with AI.
A tech author realizes she wrote the wrong book for engineers, then rewrites it based on community advice about software buying.
Charity Majors discusses the upcoming second edition of 'Observability Engineering', which is twice as long despite Martin Fowler's advice to make it shorter.
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.
An article arguing that 'operations' is not a dirty word and advocating for the value of ops in software engineering, challenging DevOps failures.
A pragmatic take on Friday and holiday deploy freezes, arguing they are a necessary hack for teams lacking robust observability, not a virtue.
A pragmatic take on Friday deploy freezes, arguing they are a necessary hack for teams without strong observability, not a moral 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.
An analysis comparing AI's rise in 2025 to cloud adoption in 2010, arguing AI has become mainstream foundational tech in developer tools.
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.
