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Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb

At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it came time for ecobee to make the “build vs. buy” decision for observability tooling, sticking with Honeycomb was the clear choice.

Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale

Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software delivery. As a startup, the Dark team is constantly…

A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development

The New Stack Context: Observability in the Time of Covid

Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years

Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to know ahead of time what you wanted to ask,…

Honeycomb Delivers Support for OpenTelemetry - Zero Code Change Required

What happens when a seasoned engineer goes on vacation?

Have you ever experienced a time when someone on your team takes off to recharge or takes unplanned downtime away from work? It may feel a bit scary as workloads shift, priorities change and…

Bring Test Engineering into your DevOps practice

What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand what is happening in production at critical milestones along…

Reducing Build Time with Observability in the Software Supply Chain

10 tech startups for 2020 that will help the world build more resilient, secure, and observable software

Why I’m Grateful For Our Observability Community

It’s that season, when we take time to consider what we’re grateful for and extend thanks to those we value and the experiences we treasure. One special aspect of America’s Thanksgiving holiday is the…

SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team

Working On Hitting a Release Cadence? CI/CD Observability Can Help You Get There

We recently sponsored our partner CloudBees’ conference DevOps World & JenkinsWorld in San Francisco and our message “Observe how Customers Experience Your Build” resonated well with the folks we met. Release engineers are critical…

Never Alone On Call

Does your organization have an on-call rotation? Several members of the Honeycomb engineering team recently hosted a live webcast about why they never feel alone when on-call at Honeycomb. Wait, that’s someone else’s job…

I test in prod

Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective

Velocity (& Reliability) – Two must-haves for every software engineering team

(Field notes from O’Reilly’s Velocity 2019 Show, San Jose.) It was steamy hot in San Jose during O’Reilly’s Velocity show and the normally frigid AC temps in the expo hall were welcomed by all…

Sustainable Operations in Complex Systems with Production Excellence

Honeycomb’s New APM Capabilities Give Engineering & DevOps Superior Production Insights and Faster Incident Resolution

PRESS RELEASE: Read on PRNewswire Modern Dev and SRE teams gain efficiencies for proactive and collaborative debugging as software updates deploy SAN FRANCISCO, May 29, 2019 – Honeycomb today announces powerful new features in its…

Not Everything Is Tech Debt, There are two stories here, and one is about risk