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Software Engineering   LLMs  

AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth

All the conditions necessary to alter the career paths of brand new software engineers coalesced—extreme layoffs and hiring freezes in tech danced with the irreversible...

Teams & Collaboration   Software Engineering   Product Updates  

Feature Focus: A Six-Week Progress Recap - September 2024

Over the past six weeks, we introduced a series of impactful updates aimed at making your observability workflows faster, more unified, and more collaborative. Here’s a...

Software Engineering   Culture  

A CoPE’s Duty: Indexing on Prod

Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on...

Software Engineering   Observability  

The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future

Engineering has come a long way since the days of delivering discrete, point-in-time products that were often packaged on a CD and shipped to customers....

Software Engineering   Dogfooding   Debugging  

Always. Enable. Keepalives.

As part of our recent failure testing project, we ran into an interesting failure mode involving the OpenTelemetry SDK for Go. In this post, we’ll...

Software Engineering   Culture  

A CoPE’s Guide to Alert Management

Alerts are a perennial topic, and a CoPE will need to engage with them. The bounds of this problem space are formed by two types...

Software Engineering   Culture  

The CoPE and Other Teams, Part 2: Custom Instrumentation and Telemetry Pipelines

The previous post laid out the basic idea of instrumentation and how OpenTelemetry’s auto-instrumentation can get teams started. However, you can’t rely only on auto-instrumentation....

Software Engineering   Observability  

Apdex in Honeycomb

“How is my app performing?” is one of the most common, yet hardest questions to answer. There are myriad ways to measure this, like error...

Software Engineering   Incident Response   Dogfooding  

Making Room for Some Lint

It’s one of my strongly held beliefs that errors are constructed, not discovered. However we frame an incident’s causes, contributing factors, and context ends up...

Software Engineering   Culture  

The CoPE and Other Teams, Part 1: Introduction & Auto-Instrumentation

The CoPE is made to affect, meaning change, how things work. The disruption it produces is a feature, not a bug. That disruption pushes things...

Software Engineering   Dogfooding  

Destroy on Friday: The Big Day 🧨 A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 2 

In my last blog post, I explained why we decided to destroy one third of our infrastructure in production just to see what would happen....

Teams & Collaboration   Software Engineering   Culture  

What Makes for a 'Good' Pair Programming Session?

Software changes so rapidly that developing on the cutting edge of it cannot fall to a single person. When it comes to asynchronously disseminating information...

Software Engineering   Dogfooding  

Deploy on Friday? How About Destroy on Friday! A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 1

We recently took a daring step to test and improve the reliability of the Honeycomb service: we abruptly destroyed one third of the infrastructure in...

Software Engineering   Culture  

Staffing Up Your CoPE

Getting the right people working in the CoPE is crucial to success because these change agents must limber up the organization and promote the flexibility...

Software Engineering   Observability  

Navigating Software Engineering Complexity With Observability

In the not-too-distant past, building software was relatively straightforward. The simplicity of LAMP stacks, Rails, and other well-defined web frameworks provided a stable foundation. Issues...

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