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 Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability
Are you starting out on your journey toward observability? Do you have a mandate from management, or are you a lone warrior in the matrix?...
Notes from Observability Roundtables: Capabilities Deep-dive
Greetings, fellow o11ynaut! You may recall a post we shared here about two months ago that told tales of the themes we felt best represented...
Never Alone On Call
Does your organization have an on-call rotation? Several members of the Honeycomb engineering team recently hosted a live webcast about why they never feel alone...
Taming A Game-Changer: Honeycomb and GraphQL at VendHQ
This guest post is from Evan Shaw, Lead Engineer at vendhq.com. GraphQL: a game-changer GraphQL is a query language for APIs. It allows you to...
All Together Now: Better Debugging With Multiple Visualizations
"Nines don't matter when users aren't happy" is something you may have heard a time or two from folks here at Honeycomb. We often emphasize...
Understand Your AWS Cost & Usage with Honeycomb
First published in August 2019. AWS bills are notoriously complicated, and the Amazon Cost Explorer doesn’t always make it easy to understand exactly where your...
Treading in Haunted Graveyards
Part 1: CI/CD for Infrastructure as Code At Honeycomb, we've often discussed the value of making software deployments early and often, and being able to...
Notes from Observability Roundtables
The Velocity conference happened recently, and as part of it we (Honeycomb) hosted a sort of reverse-panel discussion, where you talked, and we listened. You...
Incident Review: You Can't Deploy Binaries That Don't Exist
Between 22:50 and 22:54 UTC on July 9, our capacity to accept traffic to api.honeycomb.io gradually diminished until all incoming requests started to fail. 8...
Building Your Observability Practice with Tools that Co-exist
A lot of product marketing is about telling people to throw away what they have in favor of something entirely new. Sometimes that is the...
Velocity (& Reliability) - Two must-haves for every software engineering team
(Field notes from O’Reilly’s Velocity 2019 Show, San Jose.) It was steamy hot in San Jose during O’Reilly’s Velocity show and the normally frigid AC...
Making Instrumentation Extensible
Observability-driven development requires both rich query capabilities and sufficient instrumentation in order to capture the nuances of developers' intention and useful dimensions of cardinality. When...
Reflections on Monitorama 2019
This year was my third in a row attending (and now speaking at!) Monitorama. Because the organizers do a great job of turning introverts into...
Investigating Timeouts With Tracing Using Sentry
Tracing is one of the key tools that Honeycomb offers to make sense of data. Over the last few weeks, we've made a number of...
Toward a Maturity Model for Observability
Access to observability is becoming critical to organizations shipping software, running modern infrastructures in production, and to understanding how users are experiencing their service. To...