AI IRL at Honeycomb

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss his work at Microsoft & Honeycomb, building AI infrastructure & more.

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• Sentry – When your app breaks, fix it faster with Sentry Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Learn more about what they shipped for Launch Week and Session Replay for Mobile.
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• Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai.

Featuring:

• Phillip Carter – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe
• FAFO.fm

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:53)

https://sentry.io/events/launch-week/

3. FAFO.fm (00:02:57)

4. Honeycomb PM (00:07:14)

5. Legacy makes money (00:12:17)

6. Sponsor: Fly (00:15:27)

https://fly.io/

7. Mono in Microsoft (00:18:04)

8. Huge Java improvements (00:22:18)

9. Post-Microsoft (00:24:59)

10. Sponsor: Timescale (00:34:02)

https://www.timescale.com

11. OpenTelemetry & Honeycomb (00:36:27)

12. Building ML infrastructure (00:40:48)

13. Good AI product (00:52:05)

14. Improve don't reinvent the wheel (00:55:24)

15. Philip's tenure at Honeycomb (00:59:23)

16. Socials and closing (01:00:22)

17. Outro (01:03:47)