OpenTelemetry   Metrics  

Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector

CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code....

Software Engineering   LLMs  

AI for Software Engineering is Just Another “Paradigm Shift”

How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you’re a master Lisp/Clojure developer, you’ve still evolved,...

Software Engineering   LLMs   Conferences & Meetups  

Building AI-Ready Infrastructure for the Enterprise

Last week marked the inaugural HumanX conference, a convening of leaders, technologists, policy makers, and media, all brought together to discuss the state of AI...

Observability   Monitoring  

So, What’s the Difference Between Observability and Monitoring?

Observability and monitoring are not about gathering different data—they differ in their purpose, but share the same data....

LLMs  

LLMs Are Weird Computers

The common definition of a computer is a programmable machine that stores, retrieves, and processes data. I would argue that ChatGPT already fits this definition,...

LLMs  

Generating Calculated Fields From Natural Language

f you've been using Honeycomb for a bit, you know that Calculated Fields (otherwise known as derived columns) are a powerful way to transform your...

Software Engineering   LLMs  

Does AI Help Write Better Software, or Just… More Code?

As software teams race to integrate AI into their development workflows, we need to ask ourselves: are AI-powered tools actually making software better?...

Software Engineering   LLMs  

How I Code With LLMs These Days

I first started using AI coding assistants in early 2021, with an invite code from a friend who worked on the original GitHub Copilot team....

LLMs   Best Practices  

AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?

AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what...

OpenTelemetry   Metrics  

OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers

OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetry’s framework...

OpenTelemetry  

OpenTelemetry Is Not “Three Pillars”

OpenTelemetry is a big, big project. It’s so big, in fact, that it can be hard to know what part you’re talking about when you’re...

Teams & Collaboration   Service Level Objectives  

Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs

One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to...

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