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.
The State of Observability in 2021
Observability adoption has increased as more companies seek to understand how their applications behave in production and quickly identify and resolve problems. Our second annual...
A New Approach to Metrics
Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and...
The Least Worst Online Conference Ever
I am sick of online events. I can barely rouse myself to give a shit about one more virtual conference. They all start to feel...
Nine Reasons to Attend o11ycon+hnycon
You’ve probably seen the announcement about our upcoming annual conference, o11ycon+hnycon, happening June 9–10. If you’re still not registered, here’s a list of nine reasons...
Easily Debug Your AWS Lambda Functions With Honeycomb
With the Honeycomb extension for AWS Lambda, you no longer need to make your Lambda functions Honeycomb-aware. Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS...
Learn About the Future of Shipping Software at o11ycon+hnycon
Have you registered for o11ycon+hnycon yet? If not, now’s the time! This highly interactive virtual event is happening June 9–10 and designed to connect you...
ICYMI: How Honeycomb Can Help You Achieve the Deployment Part of CI/CD
In case you missed it, this webinar includes code walkthroughs that help you to add observability to your pipelines (using a free Honeycomb account!) so...
6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability
During my office hours, I frequently get asked for practical tips on getting started with observability. Often it’s from folks on teams who are already...
Announcing New Honeycomb Management API
Starting today, Honeycomb's Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically...
Lessons Learned From the Migration to Confluent Kafka
Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer...
o11ycon+hnycon Call for Presentations
In case you missed it, Honeycomb is gearing up for our conference, o11ycon. Based on your feedback, we’re also adding a new day to that...
One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb
A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2, and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one...
Uniting Tracing and Logs With OpenTelemetry Span Events
The current landscape of what our customers are dealing with in monitoring and observability can be a bit of a mess. For one thing, there...
Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care
Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of...
HoneyByte: Test Out Refinery Yourself!
This HoneyByte walks through how to get Refinery running locally to try out different configuration options and sampling methods....