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...
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Feature Focus: Winter Edition ❄️
It’s been a minute since our last Feature Focus, and we have a bit of catching up to do! I’m happy to report we’ll resume...
Deploys Are the ✨WRONG✨ Way to Change User Experience
I'm no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there's one thing I haven't sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible,...
How Coveo Reduced User Latency and Mean Time to Resolution with Honeycomb Observability
When you’re just getting started with observability, a proof of concept (POC) can be exactly what you need to see the positive impact of this...
Ask Miss O11y: Error: missing ‘x-honeycomb-dataset’ header
Your API Key (in the x-honeycomb-team header) tells Honeycomb where to put your data. It specifies a team and an environment. Then, Honeycomb figures out...
Caring for Complex Systems: We Can Do This
When we work at it, professionals are pretty good at analysis. We can break down a simple system, look at its parts and their relations,...
Understanding Distributed Tracing with a Message Bus
So you're used to debugging systems using a distributed trace, but your system is about to introduce a message queue—and that will work the same…...
How 3 Companies Implemented Distributed Tracing for Better Insight into Their Systems
Distributed tracing enables you to monitor and observe requests as they flow through your distributed systems to understand whether these requests are behaving properly. You...
How CCP Games Used Honeycomb to Modernize and Migrate its Codebase
Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that...
SumUp Uses Honeycomb to Improve Service Quality and Strengthen Customer Loyalty
Growing pains can be a natural consequence of meteoric success. We were reminded of that in our recent panel discussion with SumUp’s observability engineering lead,...
How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb
When I joined Honeycomb two years ago, we were entering a phase of growth where we could no longer expect to have the time to...
Iterating Our Way Toward a Service Map
For a long time at Honeycomb, we envisioned using the tracing data you send us to generate a service map. If you’re unfamiliar, a service...
My Time As An Employee Board Member (The Weirdest Skip-Level)
In January 2022, Honeycomb kicked off a one year experiment to have an employee sit as a voting board member on the board of directors....