Data Strategy for SREs and Observability Teams
The idea that telemetry data needs to be managed, or needs a strategy, draws a lot of inspiration from the data world (as in, BI...
How Does ‘Vibe Coding’ Work With Observability?
You can’t throw a rock without hitting an online discussion about ‘vibe coding,’ so I figured I’d add some signal to the noise and discuss...
AI for Software Engineering is Just Another “Paradigm Shift”
How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you’re a master Lisp/Clojure developer, you’ve still evolved,...
Building AI-Ready Infrastructure for the Enterprise
Last week marked the inaugural HumanX conference, a convening of leaders, technologists, policy makers, and media, all brought together to discuss the state of AI...
Does AI Help Write Better Software, or Just… More Code?
As software teams race to integrate AI into their development workflows, we need to ask ourselves: are AI-powered tools actually making software better?...
How I Code With LLMs These Days
I first started using AI coding assistants in early 2021, with an invite code from a friend who worked on the original GitHub Copilot team....
The Future and The Floor: Framing Investments for Growth
There are a limited number of investments that a team can make in any given year and it can be daunting to choose the “right”...
The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric
At Honeycomb, we believe in ensuring an awesome developer experience for our own engineering teams; it's the only way that we can compete with companies...
Using GitHub Copilot to Speed Up Your Development Workflow
As a software engineer, I’m always evaluating tools and technologies that can optimize my workflow. Developer productivity isn’t just about writing more code—it’s about reducing...
AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth
All the conditions necessary to alter the career paths of brand new software engineers coalesced—extreme layoffs and hiring freezes in tech danced with the irreversible...
Feature Focus: A Six-Week Progress Recap - September 2024
Over the past six weeks, we introduced a series of impactful updates aimed at making your observability workflows faster, more unified, and more collaborative. Here’s a...
A CoPE’s Duty: Indexing on Prod
Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on...
The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future
Engineering has come a long way since the days of delivering discrete, point-in-time products that were often packaged on a CD and shipped to customers....
Always. Enable. Keepalives.
As part of our recent failure testing project, we ran into an interesting failure mode involving the OpenTelemetry SDK for Go. In this post, we’ll...
A CoPE’s Guide to Alert Management
Alerts are a perennial topic, and a CoPE will need to engage with them. The bounds of this problem space are formed by two types...