Break From Burndown: The Memorial Day Spring Bank Holiday Break
Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2021
Show Notes
Recording date: May 29, 2021
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“They were told observability would solve their problems, but it didn’t, so what the @$^#?” - Charity Majors
It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US and Spring Bank Holiday in the UK, so Chris and I have decided to fire up the grills and get away from it all and enjoy the weekend. So we took a break this week. Coming up in the next few weeks we have conversations about ops, toil, build times and observability with Charity Majors, and we’ll take a look at both the academic side of things and strategies for tech debt reduction with Eoin Woods
Then a look with Yosef Lehrman at the Biden Executive Order and what it means for government and private sector organizations, we’ll talk SBOMs with Allan Friedman, and much, much more!
We hope you’ll join us on these upcoming episodes of Tech Debt Burndown Podcast - have a great weekend.
Guests
Charity Majors
Charity Majors is an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. “Right now I am the CEO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where we build observability for distributed systems. (“Monitoring” doesn’t have to be a dirty word; give us a try.)
“Until recently I was a production engineering manager at Facebook. I spent 3.5 years working on Parse (both pre and post-acquisition by FB). I also spent several years at Linden Lab, working on the infrastructure and databases that power Second Life. I am the co-author of Database Reliability Engineering by O’Reilly.
“I was a classical piano performance major in college, but dropped out because it turns out I prefer not being dirt poor. I have been building systems and engineering teams ever since.
“I love startups, chaos and hard scaling problems, and somehow I always end up in charge of the databases.”
Eoin Woods
Eoin Woods is CTO at Endava, where he guides technical strategy, oversees capability development and directs investment in emerging technologies. Eoin is co-author of two software architecture books (Software Systems Architecture and Continuous Architecture in Practice) and is a regular conference speaker, with a particular interest in software architecture, DevOps and computer security. He has created and suffered more technical debt over the years than he likes to admit.
Hosts
Chris Swan
Chris Swan is an Engineer at Atsign, building the Atsign Platform, an open source networking platform that is putting people in control of their data and removing the frictions and surveillance associated with today’s Internet.
He was previously a Fellow at DXC Technology where he held various CTO roles. Before that he held CTO and Director of R&D roles at Cohesive Networks, UBS, Capital SCF and Credit Suisse, where he worked on app servers, compute grids, security, mobile, cloud, networking and containers.
Chris is an InfoQ Editor writing about cloud, DevOps and security, and is a Dart Google Developer Expert (GDE). He’s a frequent speaking on supply chain security (SBOMs, SLSA and OpenSSF Scorecards), the Dart programming language and AI.
Nick Selby
Nick Selby is the founder and Managing Partner of EPSD, with a career spanning technology leadership, not-for-profit leadership, law enforcement, and cybersecurity. He serves on the board of directors of the National Child Protection Task Force, and the advisory board of Sightline Security.
He has held key executive roles at Evertas, Trail of Bits, 451 Research (now S&P Global Intelligence), and Paxos Trust. He served as Director of Cyber Intelligence and Investigations at the NYPD, and as both paid and reserve Texas police detective specializing in investigations of child sexual abuse material and online investigations.
He is co-author of several books, including Cyber Attack Survival Manual, Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime, and In Context: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians; he was technical editor of Investigating Internet Crimes: An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace.