The MySQL Slow Query Log, AWS Golang SDK, RDS and You
Did you know you can do fun things with the MySQL slow query log, using the nothing but the AWS golang SDK for RDS? It’s true! In order to let you submit RDS logs…
MySQL and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
As part of the process of building our RDS connector for Honeycomb, we ran it on our own database logs. A few neat things came out of the first 10 minutes of looking at…
Honeycomb and the Five Whys: Summary Post
Anchor post at the top of this week’s long series of “vision” posts, so everything doesn’t just appear backwards. 🙂 This week we set forth the case for why Honeycomb is the future. We’ve…
Part 5/5: Building Badass Engineers and Badass Teams
No matter how much we love technology, it is always a means to an end. The mission comes first – we don’t do tech for its own sake, we use tech to get the…
Part 4/5: Everyone is a DBA
DBAs may be the last remaining priesthood in our industry. But software engineers and operations engineers are increasingly finding themselves responsible for precious company data, and DBAs are increasingly adopting generalist skillsets and best…
Part 3/5: Dear Operations Engineers …
It’s time to shrug off the last vestiges of that martyr complex we’ve been trudging around with since the bad old days of the BOFH. We’ve got better things to do with our lives…
Part 2/5: Dear Software Engineers
Observability is not a thing for operations or some other team to care about. Software engineers, you are increasingly the primary owners of your own services … and this is a great thing. Developers,…
Part 1/5: Asking Better Questions
Any mature production system is likely to have hundreds of thousands if not millions of metrics, most of which never get looked at by a human. Metrics and logs are no longer human-scale, they…
Why Honeycomb? Black Swans, Unknown-Unknowns, and the Glorious Future of Doom
Hello friends! We need to talk – about Honeycomb, you, and the future. We’ve built this thing to help ourselves and one another deal with the future of software. It isn’t Yet Another Monitoring…
MongoDB and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
Real-world examples An interesting side effect of the devopsification of the software industry is how many software engineers and operations engineers increasingly find ourselves in the role of “Accidental DBA,” responsible for operating, debugging,…