How I Use GenAI as a Thought Partner, Not a Shortcut

You don’t need to be a power user to get powerful results. I’m not training models or prompting GPTs into poetry—I’m just using them to do what great managers already try to do: communicate clearly, prioritize outcomes, and lead with intention.

AWS Summit NYC 2025: Laser-Focused on AI

If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Summits, these are conferences that occur on a yearly basis in different cities. The events are mostly used to announce new products and technologies. This year, the theme was AI, as evidenced by the keynote, a large majority of the talks, and a walk around the vendor floor.

Will AI Speed Development in Your Legacy App?

Some people can get an AI assistant to write a day’s worth of useful code in ten minutes. Others among us can only watch it crank out hundreds of lines of crap that never works. What’s the difference?

Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Honeycomb In Your IDE? Yes, With Hosted MCP Now Available in AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category

I’m pleased to announce the public beta of Honeycomb Hosted MCP, along with our first wave of one-click integrations for Cursor, Visual Studio Code, and Claude Desktop.

What Is OpenTracing? A Walk Down Tracing History

OpenTracing was created to solve this problem by providing a vendor-neutral implementation to instrument code for distributed tracing. Over time, the community recognized the need for a broader, unified standard that went beyond tracing to also include metrics and logs.

The Fast Path to More Useful Telemetry

What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing

Honeycomb Users Are Living in the Future, Part 1: Sampling

Is Your Observability Strategy Boardroom-Ready?

Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code?

One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it’s a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add OpenTelemetry metric and log support in a recent release.

Observability Without Tradeoffs: Introducing Powerful New Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Features

Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks

Tales From the Trench: Building With LLMs and Honeycomb

AI discourse these days is all over the place. Depending on who you talk to, AI’s are absolute flash-in-the-pan junk, or they’re the best thing since sliced bread.

It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings?

Beyond Shift Left: Engineering Leaders Increase Speed and Resilience With Observability

We recently had the privilege of hosting several industry experts and technology executives across platform strategy, SRE, and engineering enablement for breakfast at our Observability Day in London.

Dashboards, or Launchpads?

Introducing Native Mobile Support in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability

You shipped your latest release. You tested it on emulators, QA devices, and the latest OS versions. But now it’s live and running on thousands or millions of real devices, across a jungle of screen sizes, hardware specs, OS versions, and network conditions. A user reports a crash on an old Samsung device over 3G. Someone else complains the app feels “sluggish” after updating. You dig through logs. Rebuild test cases. Ping the backend team. Try to reproduce. Yet, still no answers.

Understanding Your App’s Health With Core Mobile Vitals

There are certain important metrics that every mobile app has in common. At Honeycomb, we have surveyed these metrics across iOS and Android, and have defined a set of Core Mobile Vitals we think every app developer should care about. The purpose of these vitals is similar to that of Core Web Vitals for web frontends.

Gotta Go Slow

I anticipated this would be a challenging time and that I would be exhausted. So, the plan became: do all the demanding things, take my sabbatical in May, and use April as an ‘in-between’ period with a bit less pressure. I would willingly step off the gas and let other SREs on the team cover pressing matters, as a sort of pre-game for my full month away.