charity.wtf - Charity Majors

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Charity Majors's essays on observability, engineering leadership, team culture, software operations, and AI.

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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? #Leadership #Teamwork #Management
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Oct 8, 2026
Where do AI norms come from? #AI #Ethics #Culture
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Sep 21, 2026
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob #Observability #Engineering #Leadership
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Sep 14, 2026
Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars! #Observability #DataWarehousing #Tech
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Jul 8, 2026
In defense of AI mandates #AI #Leadership #Observability
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Jul 2, 2026
Is it ethical to use AI? #AI #Ethics #Tech
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Jun 24, 2026
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less #AI #Engineering #Observability
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Jun 15, 2026
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy #AI #Observability #Leadership
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Jun 2, 2026
Your Data Is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) #Observability #Data #Engineering
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Mar 9, 2026
My (hypothetical) SRECon26 keynote #SRE #Observability #Keynote
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Mar 3, 2026
First I wrote the wrong book, then I wrote the right book #Engineering #Leadership #Observability
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Feb 19, 2026
Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it's twice as long) #Observability #Engineering #Leadership
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Feb 18, 2026
Bring Back Ops Pride #Ops #Engineering #Culture
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Jan 19, 2026
On Friday Deploys: Sometimes that Puppy Needs Murdering #DevOps #Leadership #Observability
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Dec 24, 2025
2025 was for AI what 2010 was for cloud #AI #Cloud #Tech
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Dec 22, 2025
Hello World #Tech #Observability #AI
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Dec 19, 2025
Moving from WordPress to Substack #Tech #Blogging #AI
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Dec 14, 2025
From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing #Observability #Engineering #AI
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Nov 24, 2025
How many pillars of observability can you fit on the head of a pin? #Observability #Engineering #AI
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Oct 30, 2025
Got opinions on observability? I could use your help (once more, with feeling) #Observability #Engineering #AI
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Oct 13, 2025