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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Incident Resolution: Do You Remember, the Twenty Fires of September?
From September to early October, Honeycomb declared five public incidents. Internally, the whole month was part of a broader operational burden, where over 20 different...
Game Launches Should Be Exciting for Your Players, Not for Your LiveOps Team
This blog was co-authored by Amy Davis. The moment of launching something new at a game studio (titles, experiences, features, subscriptions) is a blockbuster moment...
Cut Out Time Estimates on Roadmaps: Get Into a Product Delivery Rhythm
All of the business of software, but especially the delivery of product capabilities, is inextricably bound up in questions about time. What’s the estimate? If...
Stand-Up Meetings Are Dead (and What to Do Instead)
Stand-up meetings. Is anyone happy with them at this point? They were supposed to help teams work in a more agile manner but they were...
How Honeycomb Is Using $50M in New Funding to Bring Observability to All
Today, we announced that Honeycomb has raised $50M in Series C funding, in a round led by Insight Partners and joined by all existing investors...
Vendor Switching With OpenTelemetry (OTel)
You might already know that OpenTelemetry is the future of instrumentation. It's an open-source and vendor-neutral instrumentation framework that frees you from the trap of...
The Magic of Metrics—and How It Can Burn You
As product developers, our responsibility continues beyond shipping code. To keep our software running, we need to notice whether it’s working in production. To make...
How Time Series Databases Work—and Where They Don't
In my previous post, we explored why Honeycomb is implemented as a distributed column store. Just as interesting to consider, though, is why Honeycomb is...
Honeycomb Differentiators Series: SLOs That Tell the Whole Story
In the recent past, most engineering teams had a vague notion of what Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) were—mainly things that...
Announcing General Availability of the Honeycomb Query Data API
The Query Data API is a Honeycomb Enterprise feature. With a Honeycomb Enterprise account, you can use this API today. Head over to our API...
The Blog Is Dead; Long Live the Blog
Ever since the very beginning, Honeycomb has poured a lot of heart and soul into our blog. We take pride in knowing it isn’t just...
Understanding Lambda Sleep Cycles With CONCURRENCY
CONCURRENCY is now enabled for all customers. See our docs page for information about how it works and how to use it effectively. Questions or...