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Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances
At re:Invent in December, Amazon announced the AWS Graviton2 processor and its forthcoming availability powering Amazon EC2 M6g instances. While the first-generation Graviton processor that...
Chad Malchow, VP Sales Joins Honeycomb
Welcome to the Hive & Observability Community. Though it may ultimately be remembered for a multitude of other things, for us at Honeycomb, 2019 was...
The Future of Software is a Sociotechnical Problem
"Sociotechnical" I learned this word from Liz Fong-Jones recently, and it immediately entered my daily lexicon. You know exactly what it means as soon as...
Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering
(Why it’s so important to look inside your org before you look outside) I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of...
They Aren’t Pillars, They’re Lenses
To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is...
What happens when a seasoned engineer goes on vacation?
Have you ever experienced a time when someone on your team takes off to recharge or takes unplanned downtime away from work? It may feel...
Bring Test Engineering into your DevOps practice
What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand...
"Hot-take" on 3 Popular Open Source Tools & The Observability Landscape
New eGuide takes a closer look at Prometheus, ELK and Jaeger: Open source tooling has its benefits. No licensing costs and you’re free to download,...
Using Honeycomb to remember to delete a feature flag
Feature flags are great and serve us in so many ways. However, we do not love long-lived feature flags. They lead to more complicated code,...
Getting At The Good Stuff: How To Sample Traces in Honeycomb
(This is the first post by our new head of Customer Success, Irving.) Sampling is a must for applications at scale; it’s a technique for...
Instrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python
We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read, we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging...
Honeycomb SLO Now Generally Available: Success, Defined.
Honeycomb now offers SLOs, aka Service Level Objectives. This is the second in a set of of essays on creating SLOs from first principles. Previously,...