LoginDiving into Kubernetes clusters with Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re excited about Kubernetes. In fact, we’re in the early stages of moving some of our services to k8s. Tools like kops have made getting started with k8s easier than ever. But…
The New Best Engineer
If you make a habit of reading twitter or the writings of various thought lords and ladies of the internet, you’ve probably heard a lot of advice on what software engineers should do, like:…
The New Stack Writes up Charity’s Monkigras Talk on the Sustainability of On-Call Culture
If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you’ll remember that we published a related post about the sustainability of oncall culture a couple of weeks ago, but this writeup from The New Stack…
Sam Stokes talks about data infrastructure on the Data Engineering Podcast
This past week, Honeycomb engineering manager Sam Stokes was interviewed on the Data Engineering Podcast, and in addition to hearing him talk a little about himself (which as far as I can tell, he…
Oncall and Sustainable Software Development
Yes, being on call typically and anecdotally sucks. I understand! If you’ve heard me speak, I often point out that I’ve been oncall since I was 17 years old—so I know how terrible it…
Development at Honeycomb: Crossing the Observability Bridge to Production
For years, the “DevOps” community has felt focused on one main idea: what if we pushed our ops folks to do more development? To automate their work and write more code? That’s cool—and it’s…
Use Derived Columns To Prioritize Development Work
We recently released a new feature for Honeycomb: derived columns and we promised at the time that we’d show you some more examples of how it can make your life easier. Here are a…
Event Foo: Building Better Events
This post from new Honeycomber Rachel Perkins is the seventh in our series on the how, why, and what of events. An event is a record of something that your system did. A line…
Build Observable Systems
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A log is a common solution. But hands up if…
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as smoothly as possible to minimize surprise on the part…