LoginCultivating Production Excellence – Taming Complex Distributed Systems
Liz Fong-Jones shares several practices core to production excellence at QCon in London: giving everyone a stake in production, collaborating to ensure observability, measuring with Service Level Objectives, and prioritizing improvements using risk analysis. A…
Yes, I Test in Production (And So Do You)
Charity Majors talks at QCon San Francisco about testing in production, the tools and principles of canarying software and gaining confidence in a build, and also about the missing link that makes all these…
Charity Majors Discusses Observability with Richard Gall, Co-Editor of the Packt Hub
Gall writes “One term has recently emerged as a potential solution to these challenges: observability… This is a word that has been around for some time, but it’s starting to find real purchase in…
Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors on Sharing Customer Pain
In a post sponsored by Semaphore, Wojtek Cichoń writes about his interview with Honeycomb’s Charity Majors. His article, “Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors on Sharing Customer Pain,” shares their discussion about the significance of developers…
Why I joined Honeycomb
At the end of last summer it was time to make some changes and so I reconnected with my network, old and new searching for the next great opportunity. I took on a few…
2018: The Year Bee-hind Us
In just a few days, we’ll all be embarking on the new year–kicking its tires and planning our conquests for the months to come. This holiday in-between week, while the days are just barely…
6 Best Practices for High-Performance Serverless Engineering
Stackery’s Toby Fee suggests using Honeycomb.io in this article about important things to remember while attempting to produce high-performance serverless applications. “If you want to write your instrumentation, Honeycomb.io can collect all your data…
Intro to Observability-Driven Development
Christine and Aneel explain how observability needs to start in dev. “Everything is getting more complicated these days.” Don’t miss the sequel, Instrumenting Observability: Getting Started and Pro Tips.
Fastly’s Lisa Phillips interviews Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors
Charity Majors spoke with Lisa Phillips, Fastly’s VP of Data Governance, to discuss embracing messiness, enabling customers to fix their own problems, and the power of structured data. Fireside Chat with Honeycomb’s CEO, Charity…
Fueling system discovery with observability
“Observability helps you because if you’ve got the detail at the right level, you’re equipped to explore. It’s less answering questions, in fact, and more a matter of exploring the systems.”