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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.

Instrumentation   Connectors & Integrations  

Getting Started With the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Tutorial

Honeycomb allows you to send in data from a variety of sources. The steps to get there are a choose-your-own-adventure path and the choices to...

Operations   Incident Response   Dogfooding   Debugging  

Incident Report: Investigating an Incident That's Already Resolved

Summary On the 23rd of April, we discovered that an incident had occurred approximately one week earlier. On April 16, for approximately 1.5 hours we...

Teams & Collaboration   Observability   Connectors & Integrations  

All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success

Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 "All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together," and to any who take the...

Observability   Customer Stories  

Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community

Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb šŸ? Itā€™s the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to...

Software Engineering   Observability   Customer Stories  

Bees Working Together: How ecobeeā€™s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb

At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it...

Sampling   HoneyBytes   Events  

HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling

Honeycomb's event-based pricing model is pretty simple: we only care about how many events you send. For teams running workloads at scale, the question becomes:...

Instrumentation   Connectors & Integrations  

Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before

Weā€™ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC...

Operations   Instrumentation   Dogfooding  

Dogfooding for Deploys: How Honeycomb Builds Better Builds with Observability

Observability changes the way you understand and interact with your applications in production. Beyond knowing whatā€™s happening in prod, observability is also a compass that...

Guests   Debugging   Customer Stories  

Using Honeycomb to Investigate a Redis Connection Leak

This is a guest post by Alex Vondrak, Senior Platform Engineer at true[X]. This is the story of how I used Honeycomb to troubleshoot redis/redis-rb#924...

Observability   Instrumentation   Customer Stories  

Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Darkā€™s business growth and helps their customers scale

Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. Thereā€™s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. Itā€™s a new paradigm in software...

Observability   Instrumentation  

A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development

The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases,...

Product Updates   News & Announcements  

We listened. Simpler Pricing. Youā€™re welcome.

Iā€™ve tackled this question before: how much should my observability stack cost? While the things in that post are true now as ever, I did...

Tracing   Product Updates  

Unpacking Events: All the Better to Observe

At Honeycomb, we believe events are the building blocks for observability. What exactly is an event? What does that mean for your teamā€™s observability journey?...

Software Engineering   Observability  

Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years

Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to...

Observability   Debugging  

Take huge leaps with Honeycomb for Incident Response

As engineering teams shift from delivering services on monolithic architectures to microservices and even serverless environments, developers are no longer just responsible for creating and...

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