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.
Free as in Honey
Starting today, you can use more of Honeycomb than ever before for free. That means more teams can start building up production excellence with features...
Sharing Context Across Space and Time: Honeycomb for Teams
When Charity and I started pitching Honeycomb, we had a “bit” we would do, on the importance of building for teams: I’d identify her as...
HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline
"It turns out," said Liz, "it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them." Liz...
The First and Last Conference of the Year
I was excited to attend DevOpsDays in New York City in March of 2020, but then again, who wouldn't be? A whole week in the...
HoneyByte: Make a Beeline Toward Observability Just Like DEV’s Molly Struve
“When things broke,” Molly explained, “you’re mad scrambling—jumping from website to website to website, trying to put the pieces together.” Molly was able to use...
Right at Home in My New Role
(Get it? Because I’m working from home...) Hi, I’m Shelby 👋 I’m a new Developer Advocate at Honeycomb. The New Normal What a strange time...
Challenges with Implementing SLOs
A few months ago, Honeycomb released our SLO — Service Level Objective — feature to the world. We’ve written before about how to use it...
OpenTelemetry: New Honeycomb Exporters
We’re really big fans of OpenTelemetry at Honeycomb. As we’ve blogged about before, OpenTelemetry is the next phase of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. Instead...
Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances
At re:Invent in December, Amazon announced the AWS Graviton2 processor and its forthcoming availability powering Amazon EC2 M6g instances. While the first-generation Graviton processor that...
Chad Malchow, VP Sales Joins Honeycomb
Welcome to the Hive & Observability Community. Though it may ultimately be remembered for a multitude of other things, for us at Honeycomb, 2019 was...
The Future of Software is a Sociotechnical Problem
"Sociotechnical" I learned this word from Liz Fong-Jones recently, and it immediately entered my daily lexicon. You know exactly what it means as soon as...
Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering
(Why it’s so important to look inside your org before you look outside) I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of...
They Aren’t Pillars, They’re Lenses
To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is...
What happens when a seasoned engineer goes on vacation?
Have you ever experienced a time when someone on your team takes off to recharge or takes unplanned downtime away from work? It may feel...
Bring Test Engineering into your DevOps practice
What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand...