E28: Classical Pianist to Observability Pioneer - Charity Majors Co-Founder & CTO of Honeycomb

In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, we chat with Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, who traded piano keys for keyboard commands on their journey from trained pianist to systems firefighter.

Tune in to get Charity's unfiltered thoughts on why engineers should toggle between coding and management, their challenges to the "three pillars" monitoring model and insights on how AI introduces non-deterministic challenges to software engineering. This is NOT your typical tech-founder interview! 

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