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How do we bring observability to the DB world? In the SQL Server world, you can marry up perfmon and extended event traces but is that enough? What about the other DBs? Oh goody,…
How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams
Leading with empathy—and using service level objectives The overall theme is high-performing engineering teams are generally the ones that humanize the process. Whether you’re trying to increase productivity or release better-quality code, the biggest…
Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working for You
It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this in the past two decades? There are valid reasons…
How to Know Whether Your New Job is a Shitshow or Not
We here at Honeycomb have some pretty strong opinions on the interviewing and hiring process: Namely, that it is broken af in our industry, for engineering and non-engineering roles alike. Too often, it seeks…
Ask Miss O11y, Holiday Edition
Hey Miss O11y, what’s your favorite thing about Christmas? Ooh, good question! My favorite thing about this part of the year is that work slows down, everybody is on vacation, and those of us…
Quarterly Product Update: Better Traces, CONCURRENCY, and RATE
At Honeycomb Developer Week, I got an opportunity to walk through a couple of fun new features we’ve shipped since August and ways that we’ve been able to improve Honeycomb for you. Hearing feedback…
BeginSpan is the New Printf: Observability in the Developer Workflow
Observability is a great way to understand how your system is operating in production, diagnose errors when systems fail, and find subtle gaps in logic. But there’s no reason to wait until your code…
ICYMI: Honeycomb Developer Week Wrap-Up
Getting started with observability can be time consuming. It takes time to configure your apps and practice to change the way you approach troubleshooting. So it can be hard to prioritize investing time, especially…
Incident Report: The Missing Trigger Notification Emails
On November 18, between 00:50 and 00:56 UTC, an update was deployed that improved Honeycomb’s business intelligence (BI) telemetry available from our production operations environment. Contained within that update was a defect that escaped…
HoneyByte: Using Application Metrics With Prometheus Clients
Have you ever deep dived into the sea of your tracing data, but wanted additional context around your underlying system? For instance, it may be easy to see when/where certain users are experiencing latency,…