Using Honeycomb to Investigate a Redis Connection Leak
This is a guest post by Alex Vondrak, Senior Platform Engineer at true[X]. This is the story of how I used Honeycomb to troubleshoot redis/redis-rb#924 and discovered a surprising workaround. The Problem Emergent failures…
Customer Nylas Cuts Database Queries 50%
Honeycomb user stories are the best. Shining a light on a specific use-case plus following the breadcrumbs and steps to discovery and resolution is pure gold because everyone learns. An early Honeycomb customer, Nylas…
What happens when a seasoned engineer goes on vacation?
Have you ever experienced a time when someone on your team takes off to recharge or takes unplanned downtime away from work? It may feel a bit scary as workloads shift, priorities change and…
Bring Test Engineering into your DevOps practice
What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand what is happening in production at critical milestones along…
Taming A Game-Changer: Honeycomb and GraphQL at VendHQ
This guest post is from Evan Shaw, Lead Engineer at vendhq.com. GraphQL: a game-changer GraphQL is a query language for APIs. It allows you to expose all your data through a single queryable graph….
How Honeycomb Has Changed the Way Travis CI Operates Their Business
This delightful guest post by Igor Wiedler was originally published on Travis CI’s blog. At Travis CI, we run over 3 million builds per week across three cloud providers with vastly different operating systems…
Significant CPU Usage Improvements in New Version of libhoney.py
We’ve published version 1.2.0 of libhoney-py, which now batches events. Based on our internal testing, this results in 8-10x more efficiency, so you probably want to give this a try if you’re sending us…
Structured Logging and Your Team
This guest blog post from Anton Drukh of snyk.io is part of our series on structured logging. From 1 service to over 50 today We run a distributed engineering team at Snyk. As we…
Nylas Makes Their API buzz with Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we <3 Nylas, so we were super pleased to come across this short talk by Evan Morikawa (aka @e0m on Twitter): Evan does a great job of explaining the goals Nylas set…
Honeycomb Customer Profile: Airtime
We recently connected with Honeycomb users over at Airtime, a new social video platform for iOS, Android, and desktop. Like many companies using Honeycomb, Airtime relies on a complex system of infrastructure and a…