Phillip Carter, Principle PM at Honeycomb, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss his work at Microsoft & Honeycomb, building AI infrastructure & more.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This is Ship It! | 00:37 |
| 2 | 00:53 | Sponsor: Sentry | 02:00 |
| 3 | 02:57 | FAFO.fm | 04:17 |
| 4 | 07:14 | Honeycomb PM | 05:04 |
| 5 | 12:17 | Legacy makes money | 02:58 |
| 6 | 15:27 | Sponsor: Fly | 02:29 |
| 7 | 18:04 | Mono in Microsoft | 04:15 |
| 8 | 22:18 | Huge Java improvements | 02:41 |
| 9 | 24:59 | Post-Microsoft | 08:55 |
| 10 | 34:02 | Sponsor: Timescale | 02:21 |
| 11 | 36:27 | OpenTelemetry & Honeycomb | 04:20 |
| 12 | 40:48 | Building ML infrastructure | 11:17 |
| 13 | 52:05 | Good AI product | 03:19 |
| 14 | 55:24 | Improve don't reinvent the wheel | 04:00 |
| 15 | 59:23 | Philip's tenure at Honeycomb | 00:59 |
| 16 | 1:00:22 | Socials and closing | 03:25 |
| 17 | 1:03:47 | Outro | 01:12 |