Charity Majors

Liz Fong-Jones

George Miranda

Observability is critical for engineering, managing, and improving complex business-critical systems. Through this process, any software engineering team can gain a deeper understanding of system performance, so you can perform ongoing maintenance and ship the features your customers need. This practical book explains the value of observable systems and shows you how to build an observability-driven development practice. Authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda from Honeycomb explain what constitutes good observability, show you how to make improvements from what you're doing today, and provide practical dos and don'ts for migrating from legacy tooling, such as metrics monitoring and log management. You'll also learn the impact observability has on organization culture. You'll explore: The value of practicing observability when delivering and managing complex cloud native applications and systems The impact observability has across the entire software engineering cycle Software ownership: how different functional teams help achieve system SLOs How software developers contribute to customer experience and business impact How to produce quality code for context-aware system debugging and maintenance How data-rich analytics can help you find answers quickly when maintaining site reliability

Achieving Production Excellence

Observability Engineering

Laine Campbell

The infrastructure-as-code revolution in IT is also affecting database administration. With this practical book, developers, system administrators, and junior to mid-level DBAs will learn how the modern practice of site reliability engineering applies to the craft of database architecture and operations. Authors Laine Campbell and Charity Majors provide a framework for professionals looking to join the ranks of today’s database reliability engineers (DBRE). You’ll begin by exploring core operational concepts that DBREs need to master. Then you’ll examine a wide range of database persistence options, including how to implement key technologies to provide resilient, scalable, and performant data storage and retrieval. With a firm foundation in database reliability engineering, you’ll be ready to dive into the architecture and operations of any modern database. This book covers: Service-level requirements and risk management Building and evolving an architecture for operational visibility Infrastructure engineering and infrastructure management How to facilitate the release management process Data storage, indexing, and replication Identifying datastore characteristics and best use cases Datastore architectural components and data-driven architectures

Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

Database Reliability Engineering

Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

In the Ugly Side of Being Beautiful, Charity Majors shares real experiences and insights on what's really going on inside of us, how we dim our light, and how we all struggle to feel beautiful - even when we truly are. She raises questions about why women feel the need to tear each other down, how to build your tribe, and how to know and grow in the gifts your Creator has given you. You may laugh, you may cry. You will finally feel understood. And you will be challenged to own your beauty, your purpose and your life - inside and out - and shine bright, no matter what anyone else may say.

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