O11ycast alumna and proponent of Observability for testers, Abby Bangser, joins Adriana and Ana for a super chill talk about her career journey, from starting out as a SCUBA divemaster after university to data entry, to QA engineer, to SRE, to her current role as Principal Engineer at Syntasso. We also get some hot takes on SRE, chasing down titles and pushing back against the idea that people who failed out of developer interviews should go into the QA track.

Fun fact: Rich Burroughs of Loft Labs used to work with Ana in a previous life! In this episode, Rich nerds out with Adriana and Ana about Kubernetes! Rich shares how he got into Kubernetes, how he started his podcast (Kube Cuddle), the work that Loft Labs does to help provide self-serve tooling for Kubernetes, hot takes on Agile and SRE, and mental health in tech.

Mohammad Harun shares his experiences with Adriana and Ana about being a student working on his first internship job, in which Adriana used to be his manager. He also talks about what it was like to learn about Observability and OpenTelemetry with no prior knowledge or experience in these areas and how he quickly became a valued member of the team.

We have an all-Latina crew this week!! Renata Rocha talks to Adriana and Ana about how she got started in tech and how she fell in love with Cloud. She also talks about how the job that she does now didn’t even exist when she started her tech career, the joys of mentoring young engineers as an engineering manager by drawing on her past experiences, the challenges of being a woman in tech, and some biases experienced from male colleagues.

Parveen Khan of Thoughtworks talks to Adriana and Ana about how, as a tester, she used Observability to identify issues and understand why they were happening and how testers use Observability to help developers improve the instrumentation of that system. They also talk about how Observability gives you psychological safety because it empowers you with the information to solve gnarly problems more quickly.

Nora Jones, CEO, and founder of Jeli.io, talks to Adriana and Ana about the importance of the human side of incident management. They cover topics such as psychological safety, choosing the right incident facilitator, and the importance of getting everyone’s perspective during an incident.

Luiz Aoqui of Hashicorp talks with Adriana and special guest host Ted Young about how having observable systems makes troubleshooting easier and how he wants to bring that additional visibility into HashiCorp Nomad by instrumenting it with OpenTelemetry.

Jason Harley of Honeycomb talks to Adriana and Ana about the evolution of tech over the last couple of decades, why being an on-call hero should be a thing of the past, disaster recovery planning, and how observability levels the playing field for operating software.

Getting started with OpenTelemetry is a journey! In this episode, Gabriel Fonseca and David Alfonzo of Wavelo share their Observability journey. Adriana is joined by special guest host Alex Boten, author of Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, to talk to Gabriel and David about how they got started with Observability and OpenTelemetry. Our guests even turn the tables, as they start asking Alex some OpenTelemetry questions!

Fun fact: On-Call Me Maybe hosts Adriana and Ana were both interviewed as guests on o11ycast by Liz Fong-Jones. In this episode, the tables are turned as Adriana and Ana interview Liz! She talks to our hosts about the long-awaited release of the Observability Engineering book (which she co-authored with Charity Majors and George Miranda), on-call practices at Honeycomb, incident response management, and SRE practices.