Help! I Accidentally Distributed My System!
At QCon New York, Honeycomb’s own Emily and her good friend Rachel Myers, of Firebase, talked about how various systems they’ve worked on grew out of control. “Distributed systems were never our biggest problem,”…
Intro to Observability-Driven Development
Christine and Aneel explain how observability needs to start in dev. “Everything is getting more complicated these days.” Don’t miss the sequel, Instrumenting Observability: Getting Started and Pro Tips.
Fueling system discovery with observability
“Observability helps you because if you’ve got the detail at the right level, you’re equipped to explore. It’s less answering questions, in fact, and more a matter of exploring the systems.”
Honeycomb’s Charity Majors: Go Ahead, Test in Production
“Distributed systems are incredibly hostile to being cloned or imitated, or monitored or staged. Trying to mirror your staging environment to production is a fool’s errand. Just give up.” Nice summary from The New…
Honeycomb Adds Splunk Veteran and CloudBees Chief Product Officer Christina Noren to Board of Directors
Product executive from Splunk, Zuora, Interana, and CloudBees joins Honeycomb board as the company enters its growth phase SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Honeycomb, the leading observability provider for software engineering teams, announces the addition…
Solving for Scalability
“You can’t hold the entire system in your head or reason about it; you will live or die by the thoroughness of your instrumentation and observability tooling.” Inspired by Charity, SolarWinds head geek Leon…
O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations
“Observability is a relatively new concept in the ops space, so when I saw the opportunity to check out o11ycon and learn from some leaders on this nascent subject, I jumped.”
O11ycon Discusses Benefits and Challenges of Observability
“Software is opaque by default, it must generate data in order to clue humans in on what is going on. Observable systems allow humans to answer the question “is it working properly?”, and diagnose…
Honeycomb Launches Tracing to Create a Complete Observability Platform
New product gives engineering teams the ability to zoom from everything happening in their systems down to the exact places where failures are occurring at no extra charge SAN FRANCISCO, June 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Honeycomb, the…
Honeycomb Announces the First Event Driven Debugging Product for Modern Software
Empowering engineering teams to truly understand how their software works in production SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Honeycomb announces general availability of its flagship event driven debugging product. Built for engineers with operational responsibilities–software, infrastructure,…