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Posts by Liz Fong Jones

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO

Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 18+ years of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.

Instrumentation   Connectors & Integrations  

Getting Started With the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Tutorial

Honeycomb allows you to send in data from a variety of sources. The steps to get there are a choose-your-own-adventure path and the choices to...

Operations   Dogfooding  

Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances

At re:Invent in December, Amazon announced the AWS Graviton2 processor and its forthcoming availability powering Amazon EC2 M6g instances. While the first-generation Graviton processor that...

Software Engineering   Incident Response   Dogfooding   Debugging  

Incident Report: Running Dry on Memory Without Noticing

On November 6, 2019, we intermittently rejected 1-3% of customer telemetry data at ingest for four periods of 20 minutes each. The trigger of the...

Operations   Dogfooding   Debugging  

Treading in Haunted Graveyards

Part 1: CI/CD for Infrastructure as Code At Honeycomb, we've often discussed the value of making software deployments early and often, and being able to...

Software Engineering   Instrumentation  

Making Instrumentation Extensible

Observability-driven development requires both rich query capabilities and sufficient instrumentation in order to capture the nuances of developers' intention and useful dimensions of cardinality. When...

Software Engineering   Sampling   Instrumentation  

Dynamic Sampling by Example

Last week, Rachel published a guide describing the advantages of dynamic sampling. In it, we discussed varying sample rates to achieve a target collection rate...

Software Engineering   Operations   Dogfooding   Debugging  

A New Bee's First Oncall

I'm Honeycomb's newest engineer, now on my eighth week at Honeycomb. Excitingly, I did my first week of oncall two weeks ago! Almost every engineer...

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