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title: "Building a Platform to Wrangle Distributed Systems with Charity Majors [DevOps Deployed Ep. 03]"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-platform-to-wrangle-distributed-systems-with-charity-majors-devops-deployed-ep-03--0dzu5j9mv
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izmnOsqFupQ
type: video:youtube
source: "DevOps Directive"
published: 2026-05-31T07:40:39.290Z
updated: 2026-05-31T07:49:45.251Z
tags: ["cicd", "observability", "distributed-systems"]
reading_time: 46
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Building a Platform to Wrangle Distributed Systems with Charity Majors [DevOps Deployed Ep. 03]

**[DevOps Directive](https://daily.dev/sources/devops-directive)** · 46 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, shares the origin story of Honeycomb — born from frustration with inadequate monitoring tools at Parse and inspiration from Facebook's internal Scuba tool. She explains observability and high-cardinality data, describing how Honeycomb built a custom columnar storage engine to enable real-time slicing and dicing of arbitrarily wide structured events. The conversation covers Honeycomb's tech stack (Go microservices, React, Kafka, AWS, serverless S3/Lambda queries), their deployment philosophy (code to production in under 15 minutes), team structure, engineering culture, remote work practices, and hiring process. Charity also discusses the importance of tight feedback loops, decoupling deploys from releases, and why software engineers must own their code in production.

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Tags: [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems)

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