Going On Call for the First Time
Miss O11y addresses common concerns of being on call and provides helpful advice on how to overcome any fear it may bring....
Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap
It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder, kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders....
Why UX Designers Don’t Feel Valued—and Why This Is a Problem for Your Business
It’s time we had a real conversation about why UX designers everywhere are still unhappy, why that elusive “seat at the table” feels so impossibly...
How to Know Whether Your New Job Is a Shitshow or Not
We here at Honeycomb have some pretty strong opinions on the interviewing and hiring process: Namely, that it is broken af in our industry, for...
Cut Out Time Estimates on Roadmaps: Get Into a Product Delivery Rhythm
All of the business of software, but especially the delivery of product capabilities, is inextricably bound up in questions about time. What’s the estimate? If...
Stand-Up Meetings Are Dead (and What to Do Instead)
Stand-up meetings. Is anyone happy with them at this point? They were supposed to help teams work in a more agile manner but they were...
The Blog Is Dead; Long Live the Blog
Ever since the very beginning, Honeycomb has poured a lot of heart and soul into our blog. We take pride in knowing it isn’t just...
How Vanguard used Observability to Accelerate and De-risk their Cloud Migration
Rich Anakor, chief solutions architect at Vanguard, is on a small team with a big goal: Give Vanguard customers a better experience by enabling internal...
Honeycomb Welcomes New VP of Product
I’m happy to announce that Megan Gleason, formerly Head of Product at Honeycomb, has been promoted to VP of Product. Prior to Honeycomb, Megan was...
Community wins for the o11ydays!
The observability community helped us pay it forward for the o11ydays! Read about the contest winners and Honeybees' favorite responses....
2020: The Year Bee-hind Us
Developer Advocate Shelby Spees bookends 2020 with appreciation for her team and the community....
Honeycomb’s 2020 Blog Roundup
We’re here at last: the final days of 2020. Let’s take a look back at this year’s most popular Honeycomb blog posts. Observability 101 In...
Introducing the o11yday Bootcamp
Getting started with observability (o11y) is now easier than ever with the new step-by-step o11yday Bootcamp guide. Now’s a great time to try out Honeycomb,...
2019: The Year Bee-hind Us
Once again we are at the end of another year, facing into the endless potential of the next one, and thinking back on the fun...
Why I'm Grateful For Our Observability Community
It’s that season, when we take time to consider what we're grateful for and extend thanks to those we value and the experiences we treasure....