Debugging Distributed Systems with Data, Not Dashboards (Ep. 30)

Charity Majors has been on-call in one form or another since she was 17. She knows how to get to the bottom of system performance problems. After stints at Parse and Facebook, Charity and co-founder Christine Yen started Honeycomb, whose mission is to help software engineers use event data to explore and better understand their production systems. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Charity joins Jeff and Dormain to talk about the challenges of debugging distributed systems, why a data-driven approach is the best way to get to the bottom of performance issues, and how software engineers can get their atrophied debugging muscles back into shape.

Show Notes

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News & Resources

• Find out why Charity tells Fortune "there's no substitute for seeing what's going on" with your applications.
• Download the Honeycomb Nozzle for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Beta) tile on PivNet.
• Take your knowledge of distributed systems to the next level at the Pivotal Cloud-Native Roadshow, coming to a city near you.

About the Author

Jeff Kelly is a Director of Partner Marketing at Pivotal Software. Prior to joining Pivotal, Jeff was the lead industry analyst covering Big Data analytics at Wikibon. Before that, Jeff covered enterprise software as a reporter and editor at TechTarget. He received his B.A. in American studies from Providence College and his M.A. in journalism from Northeastern University.

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