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.
Observability into Bare Metal Provisioning with RackN
This guest blog post is from Rob Hirschfeld, Co-founder and CEO at RackN. At RackN, a core design principle is that operations should be easy...
Add Custom Markers from the Query UI
When it comes to observing systems, it helps to have tools that quickly and efficiently allow you to highlight events, anomalies, or simply changes to...
The fastest, most direct route to instrumented code: a Honeycomb Beeline
If you’re feeling too busy or overwhelmed to instrument your code, we are here for you. We've talked many times about the value of instrumentation,...
RDS Performance Degradation - Postmortem
Summary Note: all times are UTC unless otherwise noted. On Thursday, May 3 starting at 00:39:08 UTC (Wednesday 17:39 PDT) we experienced a nearly complete...
Instrument Your Rails Apps Automatically With Honeycomb's New Rails Integration
You’ve always been able to get observability for your Ruby apps by instrumenting them with our SDK, affectionately known as libhoney. Unfortunately, instrumenting code you’ve...
Get Observability for Your Mobile Apps with Honeycomb
If you think about it, mobile apps are among the production services most in need of real observability: nearly countless hardware platforms and operating systems...
New Dataset Details and Schema Page Updates in Honeycomb
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got some Honeycomb improvements to share that I hope will make your day sweeter. Isn’t that soothing? Feel free to take a...
Observability: A Manifesto
Everybody and their freaking grandpa is now claiming to do observability, not stodgy old monitoring. Fine, great. Nice to be trendy I guess. But are...
Resolving High CPU Usage in Kubernetes With Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re excited about Kubernetes. In fact, we’re in the early stages of moving some of our services to k8s. Tools like kops have...
The New Best Engineer
If you make a habit of reading twitter or the writings of various thought lords and ladies of the internet, you’ve probably heard a lot...
Announcing Secondary Storage and the Fast Query Window
We tried pretty hard to resist making this joke, but: Now you can keep your hot data hot and your cool data cool! (How many...
Sam Stokes talks about data infrastructure on the Data Engineering Podcast
This past week, Honeycomb engineering manager Sam Stokes was interviewed on the Data Engineering Podcast, and in addition to hearing him talk a little about...
Security Through Observability
Observability is great for understanding the ramifications of your system. In brief, massively distributed application stacks demand more sophisticated tools than traditional metrics/monitoring, because engineers...
Oncall and Sustainable Software Development
Yes, being on call typically and anecdotally sucks. I understand! If you’ve heard me speak, I often point out that I’ve been oncall since I...
Structured Logging and Your Team
This guest blog post from Anton Drukh of snyk.io is part of our series on structured logging. From 1 service to over 50 today We...