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November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

London

June 16 & 17, 2025

Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, which brings modern observability tooling to engineers in the era of distributed systems. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O’Reilly), and is devoted to creating a world where every engineer is on call and nobody thinks on call sucks.

The engineer/manager pendulum and you

Charity Majors at LeadDev Together 2022

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On call does not have to suck

In this talk, Charity discusses the idea that being on call is a burden when in fact being on call can be a great time to unleash your curiosity, learn new skills, and develop/refine your technical judgment.

Why on-call pain is a sociotechnical problem

Easing the burden of on-call rotations

Great engineers are made by great engineering teams

Learn how to build teams that nurture great engineers.

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Engineering manager archetypes and career paths

Exploring seven common leadership scenarios

Career development for engineering managers

What steps can you take to be a better leader?

How to hire an engineering manager

Why it matters to look internally first.

Should engineering managers be technical?

Which skillset should be non-negotiable?

Habits of highly-performing teams

CTO Charity Majors joined us at #LeadDevLive to talk about everything that went into building a high-performing team at Honeycomb.

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