How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In 2018, I dashed off a punchy little blog post in which I observed that teams with good observability seemed to spend around ~20-30% of...
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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...
Confidently Shifting from Logs-Centric to a Unified Trace-First Approach: Ritchie Bros. Journey to Modern Observability
Transitioning from a monolithic system to a cloud-native microservices environment, Ritchie Bros. sought to modernize their observability infrastructure to support the transition and fuel future...
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...
Why Every Engineering Team Should Embrace AWS Graviton4
Two years ago, we shared our experiences with adopting AWS Graviton3 and our enthusiasm for the future of AWS Graviton and Arm. Once again, we're...
Modern Observability in Action at the University of Oxford
The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford is pioneering the better use of data, evidence, and digital tools in healthcare,...
The Hater’s Guide to Dealing with Generative AI
Generative AI is having a bit of a moment—well, maybe more than just a bit. It’s an exciting time to be alive for a lot...
Unlocking Smiles: HappyCo's Observability Success
With a diverse range of applications, HappyCo sought to advance their system investigations with a modern observability solution while embarking on an application refactor project....
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...
OpenTelemetry Best Practices #3: Data Prep and Cleansing
Having telemetry is all well and good—amazing, in fact. It’s easy to do: add some OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation libraries to your stack and they’ll fill your...
Framework for an Observability Maturity Model: Using Observability to Advance Your Engineering & Product
Everyone's talking about “observability,” but many don’t know what it is, what it’s for, or what benefits it offers. With this framing of observability in...
Investigating Mysterious Kafka Broker I/O When Using Confluent Tiered Storage
Earlier this year, we upgraded from Confluent Platform 7.0.10 to 7.6.0. While the upgrade went smoothly, there was one thing that was different from previous...
Independent, Involved, Informed, and Informative: The Characteristics of a CoPE
In part one of our CoPE series, we analogized the CoPE with safety departments. David Woods says that those safety departments must be: independent, involved,...