Community wins for the o11ydays!

Alright, team, you did it. You really did it this time. You really brought it home for the o11ydays!

We had over 55 wonderful submissions for our December o11ydays contest. With the work from all those who submitted and many of our winners, altogether you raised almost $4000!

In fact, our team is so proud of our users for participating that we are going to match the donations to spread an even $10,000 across these charities:

• Feeding America: US Hunger Relief Organization
• Trans Lifeline
• Black Girls Code, BlackGirlsCode, Women of Color in Technology 
• Get Us PPE – Personal Protective Equipment to those who need it most

Spirit of sharing

We wanted to hear your favorite Charity quotes and debugging stories. We wanted to see your favorite chart art. And you delivered! Here are some of the most buzz-worthy submissions we got to see:

“If you're scared of pushing to production on Fridays, I recommend reassigning all your developer cycles off of feature development and onto your CI/CD process and observability tooling for as long as it takes to ✨fix that✨.” #o11ydays

— mjobrien (@mjobrien) December 15, 2020

The most interesting part of my telemetry code is how uninteresting it is - it's super simple to start emitting data-rich traces. No agents to set up and worry about deploying, just a few lines of code to make instrumentation+export work. pic.twitter.com/nW6JApAROH

— tom (@notmyspacetom) December 16, 2020

This is an old favorite of mine: 6 months of side work and 1 deploy to have the CTO say:

"If it were so easy why didn't we do it earlier?"

Me: "you only saw the easy part, the deploy"

So, this graph shows how easy your hard work is discredited by higher ups pic.twitter.com/tyCSdl9rFX

— michael (@mpchlets) December 17, 2020

https://t.co/LDyyXF5Q3k

— BuildBetterTogether (@paulsbruce) December 17, 2020

@TimeSeriesArt even got in on the #chART game!

Optimizing the lawn

Thank you @luckypq for the screenshot, and thanks to @honeycombio for hosting #o11ydays! https://t.co/yU2PuYbXGC pic.twitter.com/mNInrdannq

— Time Series Art (@TimeSeriesArt) January 14, 2021

Sunrise over the mountains

Thank you @phredmoyer and @circonus for the screenshot, and thanks to @honeycombio for hosting #o11ydays! https://t.co/kdFlCpfhad pic.twitter.com/F1Y4X0q0OY

— Time Series Art (@TimeSeriesArt) January 14, 2021

AND not only did you bring warmth and joy to our developer-focused twitter community, you even brought a little warmth and joy to a certain CTO.

this was unexpectedly heartwarming, hearing all of people's favorite quotes of shit i've said (and often forgot having said). thank you, all of you. <3

we have more #o11ydays questions about observability, and will donate more to [c]harity if you reply and answer, so keep it up! https://t.co/IrCDLlPiQn

— Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) December 18, 2020

Now that’s worth celebrating!

Special mentions to all our contest winners: @mjobrien, @monkchips, @paulsbruce, @solumos, @codegirlbrooke, @polyfillhelps, @luckypq,  @mpchlets, @devidcillo, @isaacsanders, and @phredmoyer!

Giving as a team sport

Thanks to you, our community for playing along, for sharing stories, and for making our first contest a success this o11yday season. We hope it brings light and inspiration to what can be a dark winter.

Have ideas for what our o11ydays 2021 contest should be? Drop me a line at kelly@honeycomb.io and let me have it! Great ideas can come from anyone, and I love hearing from our community.

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