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.
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Just a few short months ago, we talked about a bunch of updates to Honeycomb’s support for OpenTelemetry. To the surprise of no one, we’ve...
Authors’ Cut—Gear up! Exploring the Broader Observability Ecosystem of Cloud-Native, DevOps, and SRE
You know that old adage about not seeing the forest for the trees? In our Authors’ Cut series, we’ve been looking at the trees that...
Honeycomb Welcomes New Field CTO
I am thrilled to share with you that Honeycomb now has a Field CTO: our very own Liz Fong-Jones....
Authors’ Cut—Shifting Cultural Gears: How to Show the Business Value of Observability
How do you solve the people and culture problems that are necessary in making the shift to adopt observability practices? And once you instill those...
New Honeycomb Integration With ServiceNow
Today, I’d like to tell you about a new community-contributed integration that connects Honeycomb to your ServiceNow workflows. My new integration reimagines what’s possible when...
Feature Focus: September 2022
Feature Focus: September 2022. Here's a look at improvements we've made to Honeycomb in September, including: updates to a buuunch of APIs, new integrations, and...
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering
In the beginning, there were people who wrote and ran software. At some point, we spun away ops skills from dev skills into two different...
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Three Companies Check Into OTel Observability
Learn how Jimdo, Upgrade, and Campspot benefited from OpenTelemetry, whether in improved performance, or by avoiding vendor lock-in....
Sense and Signals
Part of understanding a complex, distributed software system as a socio-technical system means taking seriously that the signals the stewards receive aren’t just chatter....
How Do I Do Availability Checks in Honeycomb?
Let’s dig into what we mean by an Availability Check and how that maps to observability, tracing, and supporting production systems....
Running the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps
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Incident Review: Working as Designed, But Still Failing
A few weeks ago, we had a couple of incidents that ended up impacting query performance and alerting via triggers and SLOs. These incidents were...
User Tips: Sending NGINX Logs to Honeycomb
You use NGINX as a proxy for your application, and you want to leverage Honeycomb's amazing features to help make sense of the traffic data....
Honeycomb Announces Major Updates to PagerDuty Integration
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Authors' Cut—No More Pipeline Blues: Accelerate CI/CD with Observability
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