SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability
As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability...
All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success
Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 "All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together," and to any who take the...
Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community
Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb š? Itās the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to...
Bees Working Together: How ecobeeās Engineers Adopted Honeycomb
At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it...
Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Darkās business growth and helps their customers scale
Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. Thereās no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. Itās a new paradigm in software...
A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development
The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases,...
Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years
Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to...
Take huge leaps with Honeycomb for Incident Response
As engineering teams shift from delivering services on monolithic architectures to microservices and even serverless environments, developers are no longer just responsible for creating and...
Sharing Context Across Space and Time: Honeycomb for Teams
When Charity and I started pitching Honeycomb, we had a ābitā we would do, on the importance of building for teams: Iād identify her as...
HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline
"It turns out," said Liz, "it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them." Liz...
The First and Last Conference of the Year
I was excited to attend DevOpsDays in New York City in March of 2020, but then again, who wouldn't be? A whole week in the...
HoneyByte: Make a Beeline Toward Observability Just Like DEVās Molly Struve
āWhen things broke,ā Molly explained, āyouāre mad scramblingājumping from website to website to website, trying to put the pieces together.ā Molly was able to use...
Right at Home in My New Role
(Get it? Because Iām working from home...) Hi, Iām Shelby š Iām a new Developer Advocate at Honeycomb. The New Normal What a strange time...
Challenges with Implementing SLOs
A few months ago, Honeycomb released our SLO ā Service Level Objective ā feature to the world. Weāve written before about how to use it...
OpenTelemetry: New Honeycomb Exporters
Weāre really big fans of OpenTelemetry at Honeycomb. As weāve blogged about before, OpenTelemetry is the next phase of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. Instead...