Building a Strong Company Culture at Honeycomb with Mike Goldsmith
Mike Goldsmith, Staff Software Engineer at Honeycomb, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to talk about Open Telemetry, company culture, and the pros and cons of Go vs. .NET. Corey and Mike discuss why OTel is such an important tool, while pointing out its double-edged sword of being fully open-source and community-driven. Opening up about Honeycomb’s company culture and how to find a work-life balance as a fully-remote employee, Mike points out how core-values and social interaction breathe life into a company like Honeycomb. About Mike Mike is an OpenSource focused software engineer that builds tools to help users create, shape and deliver system & application telemetry. Mike contributes to a number of OpenTelemetry initiatives including being a maintainer for Go Auto instrumentation agent, Go proto packages and an emeritus .NET SDK maintainer.. Links Referenced: Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mike_Goldsmith Honeycomb blog: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegoldsmith/