Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective
Charity Majors contributes an article to The New Stack that takes a look at how far observability has come. She describes its history, contributors, purpose, and her prediction for its future. “I believe that…
The New Stack Context: Monitorama 2019
The New Stack staff shares a recorded podcast featuring Honeycomb’s Liz Fong-Jones at the Monitorama conference. Along with additional guest Quintessence Anx, they talk about “the culture of burnout in the IT industry and…
Summary of Chaos Community Day v4.0: Resilience, Observability, and Gamedays
InfoQ editor Daniel Bryant provides his key takeaways from the fourth edition of Chaos Community Days in New York. Charity Majors, Honeycomb co-founder and CTO, is highlighted for her talk on the prerequisites for…
Honeycomb: Debugging, Collaboration Made Easier
Susan Hall of The New Stack describes Honeycomb’s new features: a redesigned home page, BubbleUp, distributed tracing accessed with a click, and added collaboration features. She explains how these new features are “designed to…
Sustainable Operations in Complex Systems with Production Excellence
Honeycomb’s Liz Fong-Jones explains the necessity of production excellence in her post “Sustainable Operations in Complex Systems with Production Excellence.” “In order to succeed at production ownership, a team needs a roadmap for developing the…
Not Everything Is Tech Debt, There are two stories here, and one is about risk
Engineer John Obelenus explains the difference between technical debt and escalating risk in his article “Not Everything is Tech Debt.” He also recommends Honeycomb for unexpected errors. “Once a system is even close to…
Ramin Keene of Fuzzbox on Experimenting in Production
The New Stack’s TC Curry joins Ramin Keene, CEO and founder of Fuzzbox, after his talk at the LaunchDarkly Trajectory conference. Keene speaks about experimenting in production and also quotes Honeycomb founder Charity Majors…
Liz Fong-Jones on How to Secure SSH with Two Factor Authorization
Packt Hub author Savia Lobo shares a quick read that highlights key points made by Liz Fong-Jones’ experience with the security hardening of Honeycomb.io’s infastructure. This article, “Liz Fong-Jones on How to Secure SSH…
Cultivating 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…