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Davin Taddeo

Customer Architect

Davin believes technology should make people’s lives easier and provide a service to the world. Most of his career has focused on operating, maintaining, implementing, and building products to improve business and personal relationships with technology. On the private side of his life, he is married and has a dog. He and his wife currently live in Okemos, Michigan, though they will probably move when his wife finishes her PhD in Entomology at Michigan State University. His hobbies are reading, watching the stock market take his money, traveling, sometimes woodworking, and every so often playing a video game.

Frontend  

Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps

In speaking with frontend engineers this past year, I realized that understanding the power of wide events is a big mental shift. We’re used to...

Technical Deep Dives   Software Engineering  

The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric

At Honeycomb, we believe in ensuring an awesome developer experience for our own engineering teams; it's the only way that we can compete with companies...

Debugging   Customer Stories  

Faster Fixes, Happier Customers: Gearset Leverages Honeycomb for Success

Gearset knew it was time to level up their observability strategy. To deliver the reliability and responsiveness their customers expected, they needed a more powerful...

Software Engineering   LLMs  

Using GitHub Copilot to Speed Up Your Development Workflow

As a software engineer, I’m always evaluating tools and technologies that can optimize my workflow. Developer productivity isn’t just about writing more code—it’s about reducing...

OpenTelemetry  

What’s That Collector Doing?

The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism...

OpenTelemetry  

Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post,...

Logging  

The Log Monitoring Guide for Sweet Insights

Logs are more than just records. With proper log monitoring, they become the honey that sweetens observability. Observability is your ability to understand and optimize...

Frontend   Debugging  

Troubleshooting CORS Errors in Offsite API Calls

In this article, I’ll clear up the confusion around Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), specifically discussing preflight requests, which are the bane of engineers everywhere....

Observability  

2024 Wrapped: 6 Key Observability Trends

Another one in the history books: 2024 is (almost!) over. The OpenObservability Talks podcast, hosted by Dotan Horovits, recently featured a lively discussion with Charity...

Software Engineering   LLMs  

AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth

All the conditions necessary to alter the career paths of brand new software engineers coalesced—extreme layoffs and hiring freezes in tech danced with the irreversible...

Observability   Conferences & Meetups  

Measure What Matters

Have you ever had an alert go off that you immediately ignore? It’s a nuisance alert—not actionable—but you keep it around just in case. Or...

Observability   LLMs  

Observability in the Age of AI

Honeycomb engineers were amongst the earliest adopters of this technology. Not in the widely parodied top-down, VP-mandated, “go be AI leaders nao plz” kind of...

Sampling  

Refinery 2.9: A Love Letter to Refinery’s Operators

Refinery is a powerful tail-based sampler—but with great power comes great challenges. We heard your feedback and are excited to announce the release of Refinery 2.9,...

Observability  

Understanding Develocity Build Data with Honeycomb

Develocity, formerly known as Gradle Enterprise, is a powerful tool that speeds up local and CI build time, helps troubleshoot your builds, and analyzes your...

OpenTelemetry   Logging  

Fewer Logs, More Value

We’re always interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of our internal telemetry at Honeycomb. In an effort to reduce the amount of noise in our...

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