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By Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer

Tech Talk: Test in Production and being On-Call with Charity Majors

Published August 31, 2018 7:00am

Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions.

"Metrics and Dashboards can die in a fire and every software engineer should be on-call" - Charity Majors

Today's Interview is with Charity Majors. We talk about how to make it easier to debug production issues in today's world of complicated distributed systems.  A warning, There is some explicit language in this interview.

I originally saw a talk by Charity where she said something like fuck your metrics and dashboards, you should test in production more. It was a pretty hyperbolic statement, but backed up with a lo...