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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Tapping Into the Hive Mind: Sharing Query History
Ever wonder how your teammates go about debugging? When you use Honeycomb, you’re not only getting observability into your systems; it also provides observability into...
Ask Miss O11y: Pre-production Environments
Should we build and run the full observability stack in pre-prod? How much realism vs. waiting for prod? Answer: Yes. You absolutely want observability in...
How Reliability and Product Teams Collaborate at Booking.com
This article originally appeared on the Booking.com engineering blog. For more by the author, visit his blog www.codecapsule.com. With more than 1.5M room nights booked...
Ask Miss O11y: Long-Running Requests
Dear Miss O11y, How do I think about instrumenting and setting service-level objectives (SLOs) on streaming RPC workloads with long-lived connections? We won't necessarily have...
ICYMI: Honeycomb Developer Week: The Partner Ecosystem
We know that you value collaboration. That’s why we share incident reviews and learnings—because we believe the entire community benefits by working together transparently. In...
Ask Miss O11y: Observability Without Manual Tracing
I think my biggest question is: How do I introduce observability without manually weaving tracing-related code throughout my codebase since that adds a lot of...
What Is Auto-Instrumentation?
In the past, we’ve written about what instrumentation is and the insights it provides. Instrumenting your code generates telemetry that shows you how your system...
Ask Miss O11y: How Can I Add o11y to Databases?
How do we bring observability to the DB world? In the SQL Server world, you can marry up perfmon and extended event traces but is...
How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams
What are the foundational elements of a high-performance engineering team? While there’s no silver bullet, a few common threads make up the fabric of engineering...
Why Intuitive Debugging Has Stopped Working for You
It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this...
How to Know Whether Your New Job Is a Shitshow or Not
We here at Honeycomb have some pretty strong opinions on the interviewing and hiring process: Namely, that it is broken af in our industry, for...
Ask Miss O11y, Holiday Edition
Hey Miss O11y, what’s your favorite thing about Christmas? Ooh, good question! My favorite thing about this part of the year is that work slows...