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.
“Why Are My Tests So Slow?” A List of Likely Suspects, Anti-Patterns, and Unresolved Personal Trauma
If you get CI/CD right, a lot of other critical functions, behaviors, and intuitions align to be comfortably successful and correct with minimal effort. If...
Ask Miss O11y: My Manager Won't Let Me Spend Any Time Instrumenting My Code
In the same way as the business is likely ok with you writing developer-based tests (unit, automation, integration), instrumentation is the same. The conversation we...
Building a Resilient System: Our Journey to Observability at Intercom
At Intercom, we focus on customer experience above all—our service’s availability and performance is our top priority. That requires a strong culture of observability across...
Authors' Cut—Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Build vs Buy
In this blog, we’ll dive into debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, the functional requirements for a backend datastore that make this possible, and whether...
Datasets, Traces, and Spans—Oh My!
By giving an overview into datasets, traces, and spans, you’ll get a peek behind the curtain into how Honeycomb facilitates observability in the hopes of...
A to Z With Observability and OpenTelemetry
“How do I get started on instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, while also following best practices for the long-term?” This article is all about taking you from...
What Are Some Useful Things to Look for Right Away When You Get Data into Honeycomb?
Here's what some of our customers had to say about Honeycomb features that they found value in right away....
Top Takeaways from Monitorama 2022
Two of our folks went to Monitorama 2022, and they gleaned a few pearls of wisdom they'd love to share with you, including an unexpected,...
On Counting Alerts
A while ago, I wrote about how we track on-call health, and I heard from various people about how “expecting to be woken up” can...
We Learn Systems by Changing Them
In the social world, there is no outside: we participate in the systems we study. I’ve noticed this in code: when I come to an...
How to Save on Monitoring Costs by Using Honeycomb
Are you overspending on monitoring and APM tools? Forrester’s Total Economic Impact analysis of Honeycomb identified significant ROI in customers using us to reduce spend...
Authors’ Cut—How Observability Differs from Traditional Monitoring
In this webinar based on our O'Reilly book, we go over the difference between observability and monitoring - and when to use which....
Exploring AWS Costs Beyond the Service Level
This post will talk about using a derived column to directly connect individual customer experiences to the cost of providing that service with AWS Lambda....
Webinar Recap: How to Avoid Being On Call With Under-Instrumented Tools
"It's expensive. It's difficult. Our APM works just fine." The three myths of observability can lead to being on call with under-instrumented tools. That's exactly...
Ingesting HTTP Access Logs from AppService
Debugging application performance in Azure AppService is something that’s quite difficult using Azure’s built-in services (like Application Insights). Among some of the issues are visualizations,...