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Breaking the Pillars: Rethinking Observability with Charity Majors
Most observability platforms are built around siloed signals, metrics, logs, and traces; not the rich context engineers actually need. The architecture of observability tooling hasn’t kept pace with the architecture of today’s distributed systems. In this episode, David sits down with Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io and co-author of Observability Engineering, to rethink how modern teams understand production systems. Charity argues that the “three pillars” model is outdated, making the case for wide, structured events that preserve context and embrace high-cardinality data…
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