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
Part 2 of a series on championing third-party observability tools to your security team, focusing on building empathy and alignment.
A guide on championing third-party observability services to security teams, featuring expert advice in a three-part series.
A discussion on the shift from traditional error-only logging to structured event logging in modern distributed systems.
A guide for new engineering managers on career paths, focusing on the choice between staying technical or climbing the corporate ladder.
A guide for engineering leaders on managing software sprawl by creating a 'Golden Path' of supported tools without sacrificing developer autonomy.
A developer shares ten essential principles for building and managing scalable software platforms, based on lessons from running platforms at scale.
A guide on using peer skill-sharing sessions to improve tech leadership and management skills through storytelling and mutual support.
Discusses why software releases cause incidents and offers strategies to make deployments safer and less stressful for engineering teams.
Explores how engineers gain and wield influence within tech organizations, contrasting it with managerial power and emphasizing the power of creation.
A proposal for an Engineer's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to empower engineers and define healthy team dynamics in tech.
A developer's post-mortem on the controversial reaction to her blunt advice for women in tech on succeeding and gaining power.
A senior engineer's blunt advice for women in tech: focus on technical skills, seek power and money, and use seniority to advocate for others.
A cynical founder's journey to defining authentic, useful company values for hiring and decision-making in a tech company.
Advocates for a career path alternating between engineering and management roles, rejecting the idea of choosing one permanent lane.
A critique of a MongoDB outage post-mortem, discussing the pitfalls of 'accidental DBAs' and the need for specialized database reliability engineering.
A critical analysis of the DevOps vs SRE debate, comparing the two philosophies and practices in modern software engineering.
Discusses operational best practices and ownership in serverless architecture, emphasizing responsibility despite outsourcing.
A critique of the "NoOps" mindset, arguing that operational excellence is a shared responsibility, not a role, in modern software development.
A collection of practical Terraform tips and lessons learned, covering AWS security groups, VPC configuration, and common pitfalls.
A developer's post-mortem on a Terraform outage and a guide on why and how to use separate tfstate files per environment.
