Company
Date Published
Author
Quintessence Anx
Word count
444
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

At Monitorama, Quintessence Anx participated in a podcast with Liz Fong-Jones from Honeycomb.io, where they delved into monitoring and site reliability engineering, emphasizing the importance of well-designed monitors to prevent fatigue and burnout. They discussed the complexity of filtering relevant information and the necessity of planning how specific knowledge should be, ensuring alerts reach the right people, and regularly updating monitors to match infrastructure changes. The conversation also covered chaos engineering, incident management, and tracing, highlighting chaos engineering's role in identifying unknowns by intentionally introducing stress into systems. The discussion underscored the importance of a robust incident management platform for analyzing and recovering from incidents, with recommendations for further exploration through podcasts and talks by industry experts.