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Master Your Tracing with Charity and Wilde

Better software can be built when we know how it truly behaves when real uses interact with it. Charity Majors

Distributed TracingIncident ResponseLogsMetricsdebugdebuggingdistributed tracingeventsincident responseoncallsoftware ownershiptracestracing

Ep. #6, Customer Reliability Engineering with Google’s Liz Fong-Jones

In episode 6 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel talk to Google developer advocate Liz Fong-Jones about ways to build systems

Engineering Best PracticescommunityGooglereliabilityreliability engineeringSRE

Honeycomb Tracing Drives Efficiencies as carwow Scales

The explosive growth at carwow meant they needed Honeycomb Tracing to understand the complexity ineherent in their architectural decisionmaking, decoupling

CustomersDistributed TracingObservabilitycarwowdistributed servicesHerokukafkaoptimizationrequestsscaletracestracing

Ep. #5, InfoSec with Gartner’s Anton Chuvakin

In episode 5 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity speak with Anton Chuvakin, Research VP at Gartner for Technical Professionals, about

Engineering Best PracticesAnton Chuvakindistributed systemsGartnerinfosecmachine learningSecurity

Ep. #4, Systems Administration with Adam Jacob of Chef

In episode 4 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity ask Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO of Chef, how the culture of

Engineering Best PracticesAdam JacobChefcultureDeploymentDevOpssoftware architecturesystems administration

Ep. #3, Distributed Systems with Paul Biggar of Dark

In episode three of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity are joined by Paul Biggar, co-founder and CTO of Dark as well

Engineering Best PracticesautomationDarkdistributed systemsfeature flagsmicroservicesPaul Biggar

Ep. #2, Observable DevOps with Christina Noren of CloudBees

In episode two of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity are joined by Christina Noren, Chief Product Officer for CloudBees, to look

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityChristina NorenCloudbeesdevelopmentlifecyclesoftware developmenttransparency

Ep. #1, Monitoring vs. Observability

In episode one of O11ycast, Merian Ventures' Rachel Chalmers and Honeycomb's Charity Majors dive into a few ways observability can

APMObservabilityInfrastructuremonitoringObservabilityobservability driven developmentODDsoftware development

Intercom Speeds Up Their Busiest Endpoint by 50%

Intercom's engineering teams used Honeycomb to slice and dice how their code performed across many dimensions and were able to

CustomersObservabilityBubbleUpdeploydistributed servicesincident responseIntercommicroservicesoptimizationreleasereliabilityresiliency

Honeycomb at Fender: Faster Answers, Happier Customers

Fender's platform team uses Honeycomb to provide top-tier service to their customers via their AWS Lambda and Go architecture, allowing

CustomersDebuggingIncident ResponseObservabilitySLOsAWSAWS LambdadebugdebuggingELKFenderGoogle Cloudincident responselambdaplatform

Honeycomb at Tapjoy: Faster Time to Confidence with Observability

Tapjoy's engineers get greater confidence and save days of effort when cutting over services for their attribution partners using Honeycomb

CustomersMigrationsObservabilityCICDdeliverydeploymicroservicesmonolithObservabilityRailsTapjoy

Intercom <3 Honeycomb

Intercom uses Honeycomb to drill into customer-facing issues in their Ruby and Go code with great precision and performance. By

CustomersDebuggingInstrumentationObservabilityBubbleUpdebugdebuggingGoincident responseIntercomreliabilityresiliencyRubyunknown-unknowns