Jessica Kerr
Co-Host at Arrested DevOps (Podcast)
Symmathecist, @honeycombio. Tweets are mine, license CC0. @[email protected] pronouns=she/her “There is always more to discover if you pay more attention.”
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Jan 17, 2025 |
jessitron.com | Jessica Kerr
OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) are a framework for validating alignment through the organization. As a company, as a department, as a team: what are we focused on this quarter? What are we trying to make true? Alignment looks nice when the team OKRs roll up to the department OKRs, and those add up to the company OKRs. This is logical. And terrible. In the Sales department, you have some revenue objective. You might divide that up between regions. From there, a quota breaks down to individual reps.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
jessitron.com | Jessica Kerr
I don’t think I’ve worked at a company whose website satisfied me. It never gives me a clear explanation of what our product does. After a few years working closely with Marketing, I finally understand why. As a developer, my goal is to provide useful capabilities to people through the software I work on. To succeed, I need the software to be running… and people have to be using it. Which means they need access, which means people have to buy it.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
jessitron.com | Jessica Kerr
When Honeycomb was a small company, All Hands meetings had announcements and discussions. Discussions mostly took place in the meeting chat, where everyone can answer anyone’s question. Between that and the announce channel in Slack, information got out to the whole company. Or did it? It’s hard to check for understanding in that big a forum. We’re past 150 people now, past the number of people who can know each other personally.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
honeycomb.io | Rox Williams |Jessica Kerr |Kent Quirk
Many businesses rely on cloud infrastructure to power their software solutions. The cloud today makes it easier than ever to create services and components, increasingly the complexity of software. With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes fit together.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
honeycomb.io | Rox Williams |Jessica Kerr |Kent Quirk
We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all of these details swimming about, I’m afraid we’re already starting to lose sight of what matters. The distinction between observability 1.0 and observability 2.0 is not a laundry list, it’s not marketing speak, and it’s not that complicated or hard to understand.
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