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,...
The Future of Ops Careers
For most teams, operations engineering is more necessary than ever. Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors describes what that work looks like for modern software teams, and...
Intro to o11ycast: A Human Perspective on the Role of Observability
Customer Success Engineer Emily Ashley describes her experience listening to the o11ycast backlog as part of her onboarding, and why the podcast is a great...
SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability
As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability...
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...
Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community
Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb 🐝? It’s the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to...
Bees Working Together: How ecobee’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...
Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale
Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software...
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,...
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...
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...
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...