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.
Observable Frontends: the State of OpenTelemetry in the Browser
The modern standard for observability in backend systems is: distributed traces with OpenTelemetry, plus dynamic aggregations over these events. This works very well in the...
Should Every Incident Get a Retro?
At a recent training session, Jeli spent a great deal of time covering incident retrospectives and what makes an incident worthy of studying. My colleague...
Alerting on the User Experience
When your alerts cover systems owned by different teams, who should be on call? We get this question a lot when talking about SLOs. We...
Honeycomb’s Deployment Protection Rule for GitHub Actions
Honeycomb's Deployment Protection Rule for GitHub Actions quickly enables canary deployments by letting you use Honeycomb query results to prevent deploying to your next target...
Achieving Great Dynamic Sampling with Refinery
Refinery, Honeycomb’s tail-based dynamic sampling proxy, often makes sampling feel like magic. This applies especially to dynamic sampling, because it ensures that interesting and unique...
OpenTelemetry Roundup for Kubecon EU
We’re in Amsterdam for the week of Kubecon EU. Come by our booth to learn more about how you can gain complete observability into your...
Does OpenTelemetry in .NET Cause Performance Degradation?
Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer to the question, "does OpenTelemetry in .NET cause performance degradation?" is yes, but context is important. I...
Feature Focus: March 2023
Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March....
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding
The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software...
Generalists vs. Specialists: Figuring Out Your Path
Last month, I had the opportunity to join Jen Dary on her podcast, Be Plucky. The conversation was great, and we covered a lot of...
Twelve-Factor Apps and Modern Observability
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a go-to guide for people building microservices. In its time, it presented a step change in how we think about...
Ask Miss O11y: Is There a Beginner’s Guide On How to Add Observability to Your Applications?
Dear Miss O11y, I want to make my microservices more observable. Currently, I only have logs. I’ll add metrics soon, but I’m not really sure...
How Do We Cultivate the End User Community Within Cloud-Native Projects?
The open source community talks a lot about the problem of aligning incentives. If you’re not familiar with the discourse, most of this conversation so...
How We Define SRE Work, as a Team
The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager, and we are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts...
Feature Focus: Winter Edition ❄️
It’s been a minute since our last Feature Focus, and we have a bit of catching up to do! I’m happy to report we’ll resume...