可观测的

2022年12月12日

可观察到的这个故事是专门提供给内部用户。成为一个内幕,现在开始阅读。旋律Meckfessel,可见CEO-cofounder,谷歌花了14年,副总裁的角色。她说这是一个神话在大型科技公司的工作是轻松的,创业者必须工作狂。作为自己的公司的首席执行官,她可以创建路径和有更多的时间和她的孩子。这个文章是基于与旋律Meckfessel谈话,前谷歌工程副总裁成立2019年启动可观测的数据平台。它已经编辑了长度和清晰。我在2004年加入谷歌是一个工程经理。这是最激动人心的工作对一个人喜欢我爱构建软件,人们发现有用的。在谷歌,我在搜索、数据工具和系统,谷歌正在使用数据中心网络。 I couldn't imagine as a kid growing up on a farm that I would help build some of the most influential systems in the world. I grew my career at Google year after year. And all of a sudden (though it wasn't all of a sudden because it was over 14 years), I was a vice president of engineering at Google Cloud, leading an organization that was the size of a midsize company. I was flying all over the world to speak with customers. Chief information officers and chief technology officers of global financial institutions were looking to me for advice about building their systems. It was incredible. I could see and talk to the people I was helping, and the teams I led were having an influence on major areas of Google's business. In my last few years there, though, I had these moments when I wanted to go and build something new. At Google, I learned how to measure everything to understand what's working and what's not, and I saw this whole new area of helping people work and collaborate with data that wasn't being addressed. I imagined creating a platform that empowered people to tell stories with data, whether you're a Stitch Fix, a biopharmaceutical company, or a teacher. But I couldn't see the path to build that idea within my job at Google. For one thing, I didn't have the time. I was choosing to grow my career and my responsibility at Google. I'm a single mother and, because I prioritized my schedule with my daughter, I was doing things like flying to Munich for a business meeting and immediately flying home — two straight days of travel. I would be off my phone for evening time with my daughter, but then I would get back online to work. I was spending hours commuting to meetings and working on vacations. I had someone close to me recently say, "Melody, you always go do the thing, the challenging thing." In early 2019, after years of thinking about this data platform idea, I knew I needed to go do this next thing. Like, every part of me needed to go see if I could. The Observable team.