可觀測的

2022年12月12日

可觀察到的這個故事是專門提供給內部用戶。成為一個內幕,現在開始閱讀。旋律Meckfessel,可見CEO-cofounder,穀歌花了14年,副總裁的角色。她說這是一個神話在大型科技公司的工作是輕鬆的,創業者必須工作狂。作為自己的公司的首席執行官,她可以創建路徑和有更多的時間和她的孩子。這個文章是基於與旋律Meckfessel談話,前穀歌工程副總裁成立2019年啟動可觀測的數據平台。它已經編輯了長度和清晰。我在2004年加入穀歌是一個工程經理。這是最激動人心的工作對一個人喜歡我愛構建軟件,人們發現有用的。在穀歌,我在搜索、數據工具和係統,穀歌正在使用數據中心網絡。 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.