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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All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success
Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 "All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together," and to any who take the...
Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community
Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb 🐝? It’s the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to...
Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb
At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it...
HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling
Honeycomb's event-based pricing model is pretty simple: we only care about how many events you send. For teams running workloads at scale, the question becomes:...
Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before
We’ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC...
Dogfooding for Deploys: How Honeycomb Builds Better Builds with Observability
Observability changes the way you understand and interact with your applications in production. Beyond knowing what’s happening in prod, observability is also a compass that...
Using Honeycomb to Investigate a Redis Connection Leak
This is a guest post by Alex Vondrak, Senior Platform Engineer at true[X]. This is the story of how I used Honeycomb to troubleshoot redis/redis-rb#924...
Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale
Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software...
A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development
The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases,...
We listened. Simpler Pricing. You’re welcome.
I’ve tackled this question before: how much should my observability stack cost? While the things in that post are true now as ever, I did...
Unpacking Events: All the Better to Observe
At Honeycomb, we believe events are the building blocks for observability. What exactly is an event? What does that mean for your team’s observability journey?...
Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years
Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to...