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Geeking Out with Adriana VillelaThe One Where We Geek Out on the Power of Invisibility with Deana SolisKey takeaways:It's important for junior folks to have a breadth of experience early in their careers to understand what they like and don't like, and to help shape what they want to do in their tech careers.Developers can't work in isolation and not care about the "big picture" of the product or service that they're working on. That's like moving to a new country and not caring about the cultural differences.Being invisible is a superpower, because it allows you to quietly learn, observe, and take things in.Being a quiet listener shouldn't be confounded with...
2025-11-181h 01
Platform Engineering PodcastGuest Host: Kelsey Hightower - Are CI/CD and GitOps Just Making Things Harder?What if your production environment had a live, trustworthy blueprint you could zoom in and out of on demand?Kelsey Hightower guest-hosts a candid conversation with Cory about why CI/CD pipelines and GitOps often break down for cloud infrastructure. They explore a simpler operational model: treat infrastructure as data, lean on clear checkpoints instead of rigid “golden paths,” and make production legible for both developers and ops.You’ll learn:Where CI/CD adds friction for infra and what to do insteadWhy GitOps works for apps but hits limits for databases, networks, and multi...
2025-10-2230 min
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in TechPlatform Engineering: From Theory to Practice • Liz Fong-Jones & Lesley CorderoThis interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.http://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/384Liz Fong-Jones - Field CTO at Honeycomb.ioLesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York TimesRESOURCESLizhttps://bsky.app/profile/lizthegrey.comhttps://github.com/lizthegreyhttps://linkedin.com/in/efonghttps://www.lizthegrey.comLesleyhttps://www.lesleycordero.comhttps://twitter.com/clesleycodehttps...
2025-10-2139 min
پادکست کُد‌شِناسیIceberg - اپیزود ده | کوه یخدر اپیزود دهم پادکست کُدشناسی، به دنیای پیچیده نرم‌افزارهای امروزی سفر می‌کنیم تا یکی از مهم‌ترین مفاهیم این حوزه را بررسی کنیم: Observability.در معماری‌های مدرن نرم‌افزاری، مانیتورینگ سنتی مانند دیدن تنها قله یک کوه یخ است؛ ابزاری که فقط به ما می‌گوید «مشکلی وجود دارد»، اما هرگز علت اصلی آن را در لایه‌های پنهان سیستم نشان نمی‌دهد. در این اپیزود، به عمق آب‌ها نفوذ می‌کنیم تا با سه رکن اصلی Observability یعنی لاگ‌ها، متریک‌ها و تریس‌ها آشنا شویم. این ابزارها به ما کمک می‌کنند تا ریشه‌یابی مشکلات را حتی زمانی که کاملاً ناشناس و غیرمنتظره هستند، ممکن سازیم.منابع :Observability Engineering - Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones& George Miranda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-09-2223 min
Octothorpe139: Mostly Just a Wide Spot on the RoadJohn was at the business meeting, Alison was at the cricket, and Tammy is Liz.
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2025-07-181h 15
RunAs RadioThe Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-JonesHow can modern telemetry solutions help you? While at NDC in Melbourne, Richard chatted with Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb about her approach to educating leadership on creating great telemetry solutions for organizations. Liz discusses the importance of being able to answer questions about reliability issues without causing problems, as opposed to relying on a dashboard for every measurement taken of the system. The conversation also delves into the culture of building reliability, where people are encouraged to fail and learn, rather than being punished when things go wrong.LinksHoneycombRecorded April 30, 2025
2025-06-1132 min
Blocked and ReportedPremium: Liz Fong-Jones And Kiwi Farms Keep Fighting (The Parable Of Mailfrawd)On the first Primo episode of the year, Jesse and Katie discuss the technologist Liz Fong-Jones and her battle against Kiwi Farms. Plus, a consent accident, a very online defamation suit, and an unsolicited email from an old friend. Trans Lifeline tax filingLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) on Twitter: "Sigh, I was hoping not to have to do this, but now that the oth… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org
2025-01-0123 min
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in TechObservability 2.0: Transforming Logging & Metrics • Charity Majors & James LewisThis interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/336Charity Majors - CTO at honeycomb.io & Co- Author of "Observability Engineering"James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at ThoughtworksRESOURCESCharityhttps://twitter.com/mipsytipsyhttps://github.com/charityhttps://linkedin.com/in/charity-majorshttps://charity.wtfJameshttps://twitter.com/boicyhttps://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microserviceshttps://github.com/boicy
2024-12-2031 min
Cloud DialoguesThe Art and Science of Site Reliability Engineering with Liz Fong-JonesIn this exciting episode of Cloud Dialogues, we are joined by Liz Fong-Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb and former Google SRE, to explore the fascinating world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)—a game-changer for scaling and automating large systems.
What We Covered:
1. Meet Liz Fong-Jones: Liz brings over a decade of SRE experience from her time at Google and Honeycomb, helping companies revolutionize how they manage reliability and automation.
2. The Origin Story: SRE actually predates the cloud! Born at Google in the early 2000s, SRE started as a way to automate manual system ad...
2024-10-1033 min
Google SRE ProdcastCreating Systems that are Safe with Liz Fong-JonesLiz Fong-Jones (former Google SRE and current Field CTO at honeycomb.io) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg for a lively discussion centered around observability, its evolution from monitoring, and its role in modern software development. Tune in for more on the importance of observability as a spectrum, the evolving role of SREs, and advice to aspiring software engineers.
2024-09-2528 min
Geeking Out with Adriana VillelaThe One Where We Geek Out on Being a Field CTO with Liz Fong-JonesAbout our guest:Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with nearly two decades of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.Find our guest on:LinkedInFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow notes:Liz Fong-Jones on On-Call Me MaybeQBasicAdvent of CodeDungeons & Dragons (game)Factotum (Dungeons...
2024-09-0343 minGOTO - The Brightest Minds in TechDev Harmony: Communication & Proven SRE Practices • Liz Fong-Jones & Marit van DijkThis interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.http://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview hereLiz Fong-Jones - Field CTO at Honeycomb.ioMarit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Open Source ContributorRESOURCESLIzhttps://twitter.com/lizthegreyhttps://linkedin.com/in/efonghttps://www.lizthegrey.comMarithttps://twitter.com/MaritvanDijk77https://linkedin.com/in/maritvandijkhttps://mastodon.social/@maritvandijkhttps://github.com/mlvandijkhttps://medium.com...
2024-05-3133 min
Mad at the InternetPolysubstance AbuseHaitians helping Missourians reach God, Dutch Healthcare, Liz Fong-Jones's Fetlife, and the fallout of Nick Rekieta's Polysubstance Abuse.
2024-05-293h 25
B The Way ForwardLiz Fong-Jones on Her Journey from Google Engineer to Activist to AuthorOn this episode of “B The Way Forward,” host Brenda Darden Wilkerson explores what it means to be more than your job description. Our guest, Liz Fong-Jones is the perfect example of a talented tech employee who engages in workplace activism for employee rights while also excelling in her day job as an engineer.Liz began a lot of her activism while she was a site reliability engineer at Google. As a trans woman, Liz discusses the importance of workplace inclusion and why she fights so hard for marginalized groups in the workplace. Liz offers listeners all sort...
2024-05-1556 min
Gender RevealLiz Fong-JonesTuck and Ozzy chat with Liz Fong-Jones (she/her). Topics include: Creating a Coworker Solidarity Fund to support worker organizing and potential strikes Organizing your Google colleagues so hard that you crash Google Docs Being realistic about your security threats (e.g., is it safe to organize in Google Docs?) Ways that (trans & cis) tech workers can support trans people Plus: How the Joy Luck Club (not that one) saved her life This Week in Gender: Listen to Hang Up. Find Liz at lizthegrey.com and on cohost. Submit a piece of Theymail: a...
2024-03-1847 min
The GeekNarratorObservability Engineering with Liz Fong-JonesJoin host Kaivalya Apte in this episode of The Geek Narrator Podcast as he discusses observability engineering with field CTO at Honeycomb, Liz Fong-Jones. They delve into the importance of observability for software engineers, the role of Honeycomb in popularizing this concept, and how observability has evolved over the years. Liz shares her experiences transitioning from being an SRE at Google to advocating for observability at Honeycomb and walking the journey from developer advocate to Field CTO. They discuss the definitions and misconceptions surrounding observability and elucidate on Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) & indicators (SLIs) and challenges they solve. Tune in...
2024-02-0354 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedGenerationship - Ep. #2, Putting LLMs to Work with Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter of HoneycombIn episode 2 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter of Honeycomb. Together they explore use cases for LLMs, insights on navigating AI hallucinations, the tradeoffs between fine-tuning and prompt engineering, and the privacy and security implications inherent to commercial LLMs.
2023-12-1236 min
Heavybit PodcastsEp. #2, Putting LLMs to Work with Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter of HoneycombIn episode 2 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter of Honeycomb. Together they explore use cases for LLMs, insights on navigating AI hallucinations, the tradeoffs between prompt engineering and fine-tuning, and the privacy and security implications inherent to commercial LLMs.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2023-12-1236 min
GenerationshipEp. #2, Putting LLMs to Work with Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter of HoneycombIn episode 2 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter of Honeycomb. Together they explore use cases for LLMs, insights on navigating AI hallucinations, the tradeoffs between prompt engineering and fine-tuning, and the privacy and security implications inherent to commercial LLMs.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2023-12-1236 min
PHPUgly361: The ShutdownLinks from the show:Symfony 7.0.0 released (Symfony Blog)https://twitter.com/danjharrin/status/1729895786064888188Command Line Picasso | php[architect]PHP[TEK] 2024PHP | endoflife.datePHP: Never - Manual https://twitter.com/official_php/status/1729168870827532504?t=DL-o14jdWEFxVWgsT8hEGQ&s=19PHP: Supported VersionsPHP: rfc:release_cycle_updatePHP Support for PHP 7.2 - 8.0 | PHP LTS | Zend by PerforceUsing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for database updates - Amazon Relational Database ServiceEduards Sizovs is lying about conference diversity. | Liz Fong-Jones posted on the topic | LinkedInThis episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by:Honeybadger.ioBuilt for Developers. Monitoring doesn't h...
2023-12-0159 min
Slight ReliabilitySlight Reliability Episode 77 - SRE to DevRel with Liz Fong-JonesSend us a textThis week I had the privilege of interviewing Liz Fong-Jones from honeycomb.io about DevRel, Developer Advocacy, and how that applies to SRE.We discuss the difference between Developer Relations (DevRel) and Developer Advocacy, how Liz got into advocacy, how DevRel helps companies and the community, and some tips on how to get traction with SRE practices in your organisation.You can check out Honeycomb's observability platform here: https://www.honeycomb.io/You can find Liz on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/efong/...
2023-11-1531 minGOTO - The Brightest Minds in TechGamification, Systems Thinking & the Power of Observability • Jessica Kerr & Jessica CreggThis interview was recorded at YOW! London for GOTO Unscripted.gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview hereJessica Kerr - Principal Developer Evangelist at HoneycombJessica Cregg - Information Technology Operations Engineer at CybSafeRESOURCESJessica Kerrjessitron.com@jessitrongithub.com/jessitronlinkedin.com/in/jessicakerrtwitch.tv/jessitronicainstagram.com/jessitronicaJessica Cregg@JessicaCregggithub.com/jessicarfactorylinkedin.com/in/jessicacreggDESCRIPTION
2023-09-1523 min
HeterodorxHow the Internet Lost its Backbone, with Joshua MoonIn 1993 John Gilmore famously said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” To learn why that’s no longer true, listen to Josh Moon enumerate “the amount of things that have broken that people in the industry assumed could never break,” as activists with personal vendettas and political agendas relentlessly employ every possible strategy to silence his small but notorious gossip site Kiwi Farms. From Cloudflare to Hurricane Electric, ISPs, data centers, and payment processors, literally anything up and down the Border Gateway Protocol has been targeted to shut down the 'Farms. With ISIS, the KKK, Stormfro...
2023-08-031h 07
Software Crafts PodcastInterview with Charity MajorsOur guest for this episode is Charity Majors. The pattern that serves as the stage for the episode is “Build Confidence” from the Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns (http://scg.unibe.ch/download/oorp/OORP.pdf). Charity describes the infamous “death spiral”, where folks that produce code lack confidence in their processes and practices to deploy code to production. According to Charity, our job is not done until we close the feedback loop!
Charity also gives excellent advice regarding patterns and heuristics: to understand a pattern or heuristic, take one that you see working, and modify it. Learn what comes ou...
2022-12-2139 min
Public Cloud for Public Good (PC4PG)Fighting Fascists in Tech - Liz Fong JonesWelcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.This week Aaron is joined by Liz Fong Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb. Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments. Within seconds, find patterns and outliers across bi...
2022-11-171h 09
Coffee and Open SourceLiz Fong-JonesLiz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 18+ years of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly, partners, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
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2022-11-1658 min
In Practise InterviewsDatadog, Open Telemetry, & A History of ObservabilityVisit https://inpractise.com/articles/datadog-open-telemetry-and-a-history-of-observability for full transcripts, business analysis, audio, video and more.
Datadog, Open Telemetry, & A History of Observability
Principal Developer Advocate at Honeycomb and Former SRE Leader at Google
Liz Fong-Jones
Liz is a developer advocate at Honeycomb, a SaaS observability company that competes with Datadog, New Relic, etc. Liz previously spent over 11 years at Google Cloud as a reliability engineer and leading developer advocate across SRE, devops, and infraops.
2022-11-0600 min
The New Stack PodcastCharity Majors: Taking an Outsider's Approach to a StartupIn the early 2000s, Charity Majors was a homeschooled kid who’d gotten a scholarship to study classical piano performance at the University of Idaho. “I realized, over the course of that first year, that music majors tended to still be hanging around the music department in their 30s and 40s,” she said. “And nobody really had very much money, and they were all doing it for the love of the game. And I was just like, I don't want to be poor for the rest of my life.” Fortunately, she said, it was...
2022-09-2134 minGOTO - The Brightest Minds in TechObservability Engineering • Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George MirandaThis interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclubRead the full transcription of the interview hereCharity Majors - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and CTO at HoneycombLiz Fong-Jones - Co- Author of Observability Engineering an Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at HoneycombGeorge Miranda - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and Head of Ecosystems & Partnerships at HoneycombDESCRIPTIONObservability is crucial for developing and understanding the software that powers today’s complex systems. Charity, Liz and George, authors of “Observability Engi...
2022-08-2653 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master Feedo11ycast - Ep. #54, Cloud Native Observability with Alex Boten of LightstepIn episode 54 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr speak with Alex Boton of Lightstep. They discuss Alex’s book Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, OTel documentation and community, vendor lock-in, and the pain of instrumentation.
2022-06-3039 min
O11ycastEp. #54, Cloud Native Observability with Alex Boten of LightstepIn episode 54 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr speak with Alex Boton of Lightstep. They discuss Alex’s book Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, OTel documentation and community, vendor lock-in, and the pain of instrumentation.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2022-06-3039 minHeavybit PodcastsEp. #54, Cloud Native Observability with Alex Boten of LightstepIn episode 54 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr speak with Alex Boton of Lightstep. They discuss Alex’s book Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, OTel documentation and community, vendor lock-in, and the pain of instrumentation.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2022-06-3039 min
Tech Lead Journal#88 - Observability Engineering - Liz Fong-Jones“Observability is a technique for ensuring that you can understand novel problems in your system. Can you understand what’s happening in your system and why, without having to push a new code by slicing and dicing existing telemetry signals that are coming out of your system?"
Liz Fong-Jones is the co-author of the “Observability Engineering” book and a Principal Developer Advocate for SRE and Observability at Honeycomb. In this episode, Liz shared in-depth about observability and why it is becoming an important practice in the industry nowadays. Liz started by explaining the fundamentals of observability and how it d...
2022-05-1646 min
Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor GamovHandling 2 Million Apache Kafka Messages Per Second at HoneycombHow many messages can Apache Kafka® process per second? At Honeycomb, it's easily over one million messages. In this episode, get a taste of how Honeycomb uses Kafka on massive scale. Liz Fong-Jones (Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb) explains how Honeycomb manages Kafka-based telemetry ingestion pipelines and scales Kafka clusters. And what is Honeycomb? Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps you visualize, analyze, and improve cloud application quality and performance. Their data volume has grown by a factor of 10 throughout the pandemic, while the total cost of ownership has only gone up by 20%. But ho...
2022-03-1541 min
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and ToolingHoneycomb for Observability and Telemetry🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretfisher.com/waitlist🍾Liz Fong-Jones from honeycomb.io joins Bret in this episode to discuss and demo their platform and Kubernetes Observability. Streamed live on YouTube on December 2, 2021.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep 142). Includes demos.
2022-01-2843 minHeavybit Podcast Network Master Feedo11ycast - Ep. #47, Outcome-based Observability with Gibbs Cullen of ChronosphereIn episode 47 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones speaks with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere. Together they compare the roles of product managers and developer advocates, and discuss the phases of outcome-based observability.
2021-12-0724 minO11ycastEp. #47, Outcome-based Observability with Gibbs Cullen of ChronosphereIn episode 47 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones speaks with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere. Together they compare the roles of product managers and developer advocates, and discuss the phases of outcome-based observability.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2021-12-0724 minHeavybit PodcastsEp. #47, Outcome-based Observability with Gibbs Cullen of ChronosphereIn episode 47 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones speaks with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere. Together they compare the roles of product managers and developer advocates, and discuss the phases of outcome-based observability.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2021-12-0724 min
The VOIDEpisode 1: Honeycomb and the Kafka Migration"We no longer felt confident about what the exact operational boundaries of our cluster were supposed to be."In early 2021, observability company Honeycomb dealt with a series of outages related to their Kafka architectural migration, culminating in a 12-hour incident, which is an extremely long outage for the company. In this episode, we chat with two engineers involved in these incidents, Liz Fong-Jones and Fred Hebert, about the backstory that is summarized in this meta-analysis they published in May. We cover a wide range of topics beyond the specific technical details of the incident (which w...
2021-11-0131 min
Kongcast: The API Connectivity SeriesServices Don’t Have to Be Eight-9s Reliable | Liz Fong-Jones | HoneycombIn this Kongcast episode, Liz Fong-Jones, principal developer advocate at Honeycomb, introduces us to the concept of error budgets for service-level objectives (SLOs) and demonstrates how to accelerate software delivery with observability.Learn more about service reliability and observability on Honeycomb's blog at hny.co/blog.Check out the preview version of Liz's new book "Observability Engineering" https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/observability-engineering/9781492076438/Follow Liz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizthegreySubscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes and see which guests are coming on the show...
2021-10-0433 minKongcast: The API Connectivity SeriesIntroducing Kongcast - Starting October 4!📣 It’s official 🦍We’re launching a new series with Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard called Kongcast!We'll interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week.We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level.We go beyond the buzzwords and dissect real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.🤩 Our first batch of guest stars will include Liz Fong-Jones, Viktor Farcic, Ben Greenberg, Aaron Weikle, C...
2021-09-2800 min
Page it to the LimitObservability Engineering With HoneycombAll-star trio Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda join us this week to talk all things observability, observability engineering, and their new book on the subject.
2021-09-0730 min
Cloud Engineering Archives - Software Engineering DailyGCP with Liz Fong-Jones
Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. If you’re looking to lower your AWS bill or negotiate a new contract with AWS, you can learn more about The Duckbill Group’s services at https://www.duckbillgroup.com/.
Corey is also the host and creator of Last Week in AWS, which publishes newsletters and podcasts covering topics to help you stay...
2021-06-0955 min
Software Engineering DailyGCP with Liz Fong-JonesCorey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. If you're looking to lower your AWS bill or negotiate a new contract with AWS, you can learn more about The Duckbill Group's services at https://www.duckbillgroup.com/. Corey is also the host and creator of Last Week in AWS, which publishes newsletters and podcasts covering topics to help you stay up to date...
2021-06-0953 min
Unintended ConsequencesEp. #4, Everything is an Experiment with Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones of HoneycombIn episode 4 of Unintended Consequences, Yoz and Kim speak with Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb about scaling teams and company values. They share how their team makes space for curiosity and learning as a group, and why this has been so important for the Honeycomb platform.
The post Ep. #4, Everything is an Experiment with Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb appeared first on Heavybit.
2021-04-1930 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedUnintended Consequences - Ep. #4, Everything is an Experiment with Charity Majors & Liz Fong-JonesIn episode 4 of Unintended Consequences, Yoz and Kim speak with Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb about scaling teams and company values. They share how their team makes space for curiosity and learning as a group, and why this has been so important for the Honeycomb platform.
2021-04-1930 min
Unintended ConsequencesEp. #4, Everything is an Experiment with Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones of HoneycombIn episode 4 of Unintended Consequences, Yoz and Kim speak with Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb about scaling teams and company values. They share how their team makes space for curiosity and learning as a group, and why this has been so important for the Honeycomb platform.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2021-04-1930 min
Software Crafts PodcastInterview with Niranjani ManoharanThis week on our show, we have Niranjani! She will share her opinion and experiences about the heuristic “Sleep easy on a green build” from the Xebia Essentials repository (https://essentials.xebia.com/no-broken-builds/). We discuss her recent journey, where continuous improvement based on a green (or red) build drove the teams to find solutions to guarantee the quality of the product, and at the same time the speed of shipping features. From automated testing to observability and A/B testing test data challenges, she shares how the practices evolved over time. Niranjani recommends the following resources:...
2021-03-1731 min
Page it to the LimitSummit Speaker Special With Liz Fong-JonesEpisode Transcript
Quintessence Anx:
Welcome to Page It to the Limit, a podcast where we explore what it takes to run software and production successfully. We cover leading practices used in the software industry to improve both system reliability and the lives of the people supporting those systems. I’m your host, Quintessence, or QuintessenceAnx on Twitter.
Today we’re talking about Liz’s upcoming talk, Cultivating Production Excellence at PagerDuty Summit at the end of this month. We’re joined by Liz Fong-Jones, principal developer advocate at Honeycomb, where she makes developers, operators and workers...
2020-09-1520 minPage it to the LimitSummit Speaker Special With Liz Fong-JonesLiz Fong-Jones speaks about her upcoming talk at PagerDuty Summit, on 23 September, as well as other topics including how Honeycomb is handling the COVID pandemic and how to navigate work-life balance when home is work.
2020-09-1520 min
Screaming in the CloudBuilding Ethical Tech Companies with Liz Fong-JonesAbout Liz Fong-JonesLiz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 16+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.Links ReferencedCompany Site: https://www.honeycomb.io/The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/Honeycomb Liz: https://www.honeycomb.io/lizPersonal site: https://www.lizthegrey.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey
2020-07-2836 min
Google Cloud Platform PodcastThe Art of SLOs with Alex BramleyToday on the podcast, Jon Foust is back with Mark Mirchandani as we talk about SLOs and the importance of measuring service reliability with Alex Bramley. As a member of the Google SRE team, Alex and his coworkers help customers optimally run their services on Google Cloud. They collaborate with the client, weighing client needs and user needs to develop a plan that is affordable, efficient, and has the highest reliability for the user. Recently, they've been working to automate functions such as detection of outages, so that Google and the customer can work together quickly to get everything...
2020-03-2536 min
BrakeSec Education Podcast2020-003- Liz Fong Jones, tracking Pentesters, setting up MFA for SSH, and Developer AdvocatesWhat is Honeycomb.io? From the site: "Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating your production systems. We can gather data from any source—from your clients (mobile, IoT, browsers), vendored software, or your own code. Single-node debugging tools miss crucial details in a world where infrastructure is dynamic and ephemeral. Honeycomb is a new type of tool, designed and evolved to meet the real needs of platforms, microservices, serverless apps, and complex systems." SSH 2FA gist https://gist.github.com/lizthegrey/9c21673f33186a9cc775464afbdce820 Hon...
2020-01-3034 minBrakeSec Education Podcast2020-002-Liz Fong-Jones discusses blog post about Honeycomb.io Incident ResponseMs. Berlin's appearance on #misec podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2IF0zn_BE with @kentgruber and @quantissIA Blog post: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/incident-report-running-dry-on-memory-without-noticing/ What is Honeycomb.io? From the site: "Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating your production systems. We can gather data from any source—from your clients (mobile, IoT, browsers), vendored software, or your own code. Single-node debugging tools miss crucial details in a world where infrastructure is dynamic and ephemeral. Honeycomb is a new type of tool...
2020-01-2336 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedO11ycast - Ep. #13, Cloud Wrangling with Natalie Bennett of PivotalIn episode 13 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones talk with Natalie Bennett, Software Engineering Manager at Pivotal. They discuss the difference between collaborative projects and teams, continuous verification, and diagnosing failed deployments.
2019-10-1035 minHeavybit PodcastsEp. #13, Cloud Wrangling with Natalie Bennett of PivotalIn episode 13 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones talk with Natalie Bennett, Software Engineering Manager at Pivotal. They discuss the difference between collaborative projects and teams, continuous verification, and diagnosing failed deployments.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-10-1035 minO11ycastEp. #13, Cloud Wrangling with Natalie Bennett of PivotalIn episode 13 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones talk with Natalie Bennett, Software Engineering Manager at Pivotal. They discuss the difference between collaborative projects and teams, continuous verification, and diagnosing failed deployments.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-10-1035 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedO11ycast - Ep. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of IntercomIn episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial importance of timely shipping, high-cardinality metrics, and the engineering value of running less software.
2019-09-1226 minO11ycastEp. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of IntercomIn episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial importance of timely shipping, high-cardinality metrics, and the engineering value of running less software.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-09-1226 minHeavybit PodcastsEp. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of IntercomIn episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial importance of timely shipping, high-cardinality metrics, and the engineering value of running less software.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-09-1226 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays Minneapolis 2019Bridget and Matty chat with guests Liz Fong-Jones, Alice Goldfuss, and RJ Williams, in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Minneapolis 2019.
Liz Fong-Jones is a new organizer of devopsdays New York City. Alice Goldfuss is the MC for devopsdays Portland. RJ Williams is an organizer of devopsdays Raleigh.
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Open CFPs
lots of DevOpsDays
Discount codes
2019-08-1639 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedO11ycast - Ep. #11, Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina of GremlinIn episode 11 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Gremlin chaos engineer Ana Medina. They discuss the relevance of breaking things in order to engineer them more efficiently, monitoring vs observability, and chaos engineering at scale.
2019-08-1524 minO11ycastEp. #11, Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina of GremlinIn episode 11 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Gremlin chaos engineer Ana Medina. They discuss the relevance of breaking things in order to engineer them more efficiently, monitoring vs observability, and chaos engineering at scale.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-08-1524 minHeavybit PodcastsEp. #11, Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina of GremlinIn episode 11 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Gremlin chaos engineer Ana Medina. They discuss the relevance of breaking things in order to engineer them more efficiently, monitoring vs observability, and chaos engineering at scale.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-08-1524 min
Your First Million9. Keith Wasserman - "From a $5,000 loan to $1billion in real estate assets."Keith Wasserman is the co-founder of Gelt, a Los Angeles-based investment firm that acquires, manages and re-positions real estate investments. Since 2008, Gelt has acquired over 10,000 units, starting with their first acquisition of 4 units. These properties are worth more than $1 billion collectively.
Links:
Twitter
Gelt
You First Million Episode 3 with Liz-Fong Jones
Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Apply for DigitalOcean Hatch. (To inquire about sponsoring the YFM podcast, please get in touch.)
Credits
Producer and Editor: Anna Eichenauer Senior Producer: Bryan Landers Additional audio mixing and mastering...
2019-07-2147 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedO11ycast - Ep. #10, Measuring Technical Debt with Bugsnag CEO James SmithIn episode 10 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Bugsnag CEO James Smith. They discuss the seemingly impossible ways an organization can measure technical debt and how they can attempt to reduce it.
2019-07-1827 minHeavybit PodcastsEp. #10, Measuring Technical Debt with Bugsnag CEO James SmithIn episode 10 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Bugsnag CEO James Smith. They discuss the seemingly impossible ways an organization can measure technical debt and how they can attempt to reduce it.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-07-1827 minO11ycastEp. #10, Measuring Technical Debt with Bugsnag CEO James SmithIn episode 10 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Bugsnag CEO James Smith. They discuss the seemingly impossible ways an organization can measure technical debt and how they can attempt to reduce it.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2019-07-1827 min
BTSW BonusIs quitting your sexist job really a tactic?BTSW has shared quitting as a viable tactic on previous episodes - If you can’t change your workplace, find a new one. Eula believes in this tactic– she's a prolific quitter. Jeannie doesn’t - she has literally never quit a job. So when is quitting a wise tactical choice? And what happens when you *DO* quit just to discover your new work reality is just a different kind of toxic? And honestly, if “quit” is a viable tactic, why isn’t “just suck it up and deal with it” a viable tactic too? Liz Fong-Jones thought a lot about this w...
2019-07-1630 min
Battle Tactics for Your Sexist WorkplaceIs quitting your sexist job really a tactic?
BTSW has shared quitting as a viable tactic on previous episodes. If you can’t change your workplace, find a new one. Eula believes in this tactic– she's a prolific quitter. Jeannie doesn’t - she has literally never quit a job. So when is quitting a wise tactical choice? And what happens when you *DO* quit just to discover your new work reality is just a different kind of toxic? And honestly, if “quitting” is a viable tactic, why isn’t “just suck it up and deal with it” a viable tactic too? Liz Fong-Jones thought a lot about this when...
2019-07-1630 min
What'd You Miss This WeekAlexis Ohanian's Push to Make Paid Paternity Leave a RightThis week, former Alphabet engineer and activist Liz Fong-Jones joined to discuss the challenges of working as a trans person at Alphabet and how the tech industry can better protect the rights of vulnerable employees. Larry Jasinski, the CEO of ReWalk, came on talk his company's work using robotics to help paraplegics and stroke victims walk again. Then Reddit and Initialized Capital co-founder Alexis Ohanian joined to talk about his new mission: fighting for paid paternity leave.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2019-06-2131 minYour First Million3. Liz Fong-Jones "You *can* be successful as a trans person. I wish there were more of us."Description
Liz Fong-Jones is a Site Reliability Engineer and former high-ranking Google employee who used her talents as a coder and some strategic planning to take her out of a tumultuous early home life and into the life of a multi-millionaire. Arlan and Liz met up in New York City to speak candidly about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Links:
Twitter
Website
Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Apply for DigitalOcean Hatch.
(To inquire about sponsoring the YFM podcast, please get in touch.)
Mentions
2019-06-0850 min
Frontier Podcast by Gun.ioEthical engineering on the path to excellent systemsLiz Fong-Jones is a 15-year Site Reliability Engineer. She’s a former Google and current SRE and observability advocate for Honeycomb.io. Liz evangelizes “Building Excellent Systems” that both look out for the people who use the system, and for the people who work on it. In this fascinating episode, she talks with Ledge about wide ranging ethical issues in engineering, and about how it’s a business advantage to say you’re an ethical engineer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-06-0422 minFrontier Podcast by Gun.ioEthical engineering on the path to excellent systemsLiz Fong-Jones is a 15-year Site Reliability Engineer. She’s a former Google and current SRE and observability advocate for Honeycomb.io. Liz evangelizes “Building Excellent Systems” that both look out for the people who use the system, and for the people who work on it. In this fascinating episode, she talks with Ledge about wide ranging ethical issues in engineering, and about how it’s a business advantage to say you’re an ethical engineer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-06-0422 min
#causeasceneLiz Fong-Jones“We have to stand up for what’s right and we have to do that in an intersectional way. We can’t just stand up for our selves, we have to build that solidarity. We don’t have the numbers alone. If we work together we can actually accomplish change.” Liz Fong-Jones is a developer advocate, labor and ethics […]
2019-03-0659 min
tcp.fmScreaming in the last week of the cloud podEpisode 11
This week we have special guest Corey Quinn (twitter: @quinnypig). We talk about Googles Culture, Managed Database Services, Amazon HQ2. Plus the world famous lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools.
Sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod
Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod
Follow Up
Azure security center helps protect you from RunC vulnerability – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-security-center-helps-you-protect-your-environment-from-new-vulnerabilities/
Ballmer’s Clippers select AWS in the first round for their public cloud partner
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/steve-ballmers-los-angeles-clippers-sign-cloud-deal-microsoft-rival-amazon-web-services/
News
Google Cloud Security talks at...
2019-02-231h 02
tcp.fmEpisode 11 – Screaming in the last week of the cloud podEpisode 11
This week we have special guest Corey Quinn (twitter: @quinnypig). We talk about Googles Culture, Managed Database Services, Amazon HQ2. Plus the world famous lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools.
Sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod
Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod
Follow Up
Azure security center helps protect you from RunC vulnerability – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-security-center-helps-you-protect-your-environment-from-new-vulnerabilities/
Ballmer’s Clippers select AWS in the first round for their public cloud partner
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/steve-ballmers-los-angeles-clippers-sign-cloud-deal-microsoft-rival-amazon-web-services/
News
Google Cloud Security...
2019-02-231h 02
The Cloud PodScreaming in the last week of the cloud podEpisode 11
This week we have special guest Corey Quinn (twitter: @quinnypig). We talk about Googles Culture, Managed Database Services, Amazon HQ2. Plus the world famous lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools.
Sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod
Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod
Follow Up
Azure security center helps protect you from RunC vulnerability – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-security-center-helps-you-protect-your-environment-from-new-vulnerabilities/
Ballmer’s Clippers select AWS in the first round for their public cloud partner
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/steve-ballmers-los-angeles-clippers-sign-cloud-deal-microsoft-rival-amazon-web-services/
News
Google Cloud Security talks at...
2019-02-191h 02Google Cloud Platform PodcastEnd of Year Wrap-upHappy Holidays, everyone! Melanie and Mark wrap up a great year by reminiscing about some of their favorite episodes! We also talk about the big news of the year, our favorite articles, and what's coming up for the GCP Podcast in 2019. Cool things of the week Kubernetes and GKE for developers: a year of Cloud Console blog Reducing gender bias in Google Translate blog Cloud Security Command Center is now in beta and ready to use blog Main content Podcast accomplishments! We have awesome new intro and outro music, new website, new YouTube videos! We hit 1...
2018-12-1232 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastJava & Jib with Patrick Flynn and Mike EltsufinMark and Melanie speak with Patrick Flynn and Mike Eltsufin about their exciting new Java products for Google Cloud. Mike tells us all about the new Spring Cloud GCP, a helpful tool that integrates Google Cloud Platform APIs and the Spring Framework. Patrick elaborates on his team's new tool, Jib, a Java container image builder, and how it helps Java developers. Patrick Flynn Patrick Flynn is a long time Java developer who spent many years in Google Ads, and is now four years into being the tech lead of the Google Cloud Java Tools team. Mike...
2018-10-1729 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedO11ycast - Ep. #6, Customer Reliability Engineering with Google's Liz Fong-JonesIn episode 6 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel talk to Google developer advocate Liz Fong-Jones about ways to build systems to be more transparent and explainable.
2018-10-1634 minO11ycastEp. #6, Customer Reliability Engineering with Google’s Liz Fong-JonesIn episode 6 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel talk to Google developer advocate Liz Fong-Jones about ways to build systems to be more transparent and explainable.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2018-10-1634 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastNext Day 3It's the third and final day for us at NEXT, and Mark and Melanie are wrapping up with some great interviews! First, we spoke with Stephanie Cueto and Vivian San of Techtonica, a San Francisco non-profit. Next, Liz Fong-Jones and Nikhita Raghunath joined us for a quick discussion about open source and Stackdriver and last but not least, Robert Kubis helped us close things sharing what it means to do DevRel at this event. Stephanie Cueto and Vivian San Stephanie Cueto is a Software Engineer and advocate for the Latinx & women community. She has been involved in...
2018-07-2726 min
Screaming in the CloudEpisode 19: I want to build a world spanning search engine on top of GCPSome companies that offer services expect you to do things their way or take the highway. However, Google expects people to simply adapt the tech company’s suggestions and best practices for their specific context. This is how things are done at Google, but this may not work in your environment.
Today, we’re talking to Liz Fong-Jones, a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google. Liz works on the Google Cloud Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team and enjoys helping people adapt reliability practices in a way that makes sense for their companies.
Some of t...
2018-07-1939 minScreaming in the CloudEpisode 19: I want to build a world spanning search engine on top of GCPSome companies that offer services expect you to do things their way or take the highway. However, Google expects people to simply adapt the tech company’s suggestions and best practices for their specific context. This is how things are done at Google, but this may not work in your environment.
Today, we’re talking to Liz Fong-Jones, a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google. Liz works on the Google Cloud Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team and enjoys helping people adapt reliability practices in a way that makes sense for their companies.
Some of t...
2018-07-1939 minGoogle Cloud Platform PodcastSRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth VargoThis week is a clash of titans! Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo join Mark and Melanie, to battle out on which is better: SRE or Devops (hint - everyone wins!). Liz Fong-Jones Liz is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google and works on the Google Cloud Customer Reliability Engineering team in New York. She has worked on services ranging from Google Flights to Cloud Bigtable in her 10+ years at Google. She lives with her wife, metamour, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix in Brooklyn. In her spare time, she plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online...
2018-05-1635 min