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Hot Swapping Active Production Services Reliably With Honeycomb – Thanks

The Mode Analytics backend team is updating different services in their stack by hot swapping them in production. Watch this

Engineering Best PracticesMigrationsObservabilityOpenTelemetry

Instrumentation Options Designed For Success

Instrumenting your code is the first step toward observability. The telemetry data emitted by your applications and systems will help

InstrumentationObservabilityOpenTelemetry

Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation Should Be Boring

OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can be used to instrument, generate, collect and export telemetry

InstrumentationObservabilityOpenTelemetryAPIsinstrumentationOpenTelemetrySDKstools

Ep. #41, Organizing Conferences with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat

In episode 41 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat. Together they pull back the

DebuggingEngineering Best PracticesAaron Aldrichconferencefeedback cyclesmulti-tenancy debuggingRedHat

Vanguard’s Adoption Journey: How Honeycomb Helps Shape Developer Workflows

After evaluating multiple approaches to distributed tracing, Vanguard ultimately landed on using OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb. Now, they have hundreds of

CustomersEngineering Best PracticesObservabilityOpenTelemetryOpenTelemetryRich AnakorService Level ObjectivesSLOVanguard

Building Observability Metrics With OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry provided trace data stability earlier this year. Now, project contributors are enhancing metrics support in OpenTelemetry. This means the

MetricsObservabilityOpenTelemetryAlolita SharmaAWSmetricsOpenTelemetryOTelOtel CollectorprometheusSDK

How Tracing Uncovers Half-truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure

Frank Chen shares how traces gave us a critical and compounding capability to better understand where, when, how, and why

CI/CD PipelinesDistributed TracingObservabilityCICDFrank Chenhigh-dimensionalitySlackSlackTraceSpanEventstracing

Red Hat: Observability & Refactoring in a Java Monolith: A

This talk covers hard lessons learned by a small team at Red Hat over the past few years as they

CustomersMigrationsObservabilityFeaturedjava monolithJohn CaseyObservabilityrefactoring

Intelligent Medical Objects: The Curious Case of the Latency Spike

Michael covers false starts during early issue investigation including cold starts, provisioned concurrency, and function memory limits. You'll learn how

CustomersDebuggingIncident ResponseObservabilityapplication performanceIMOIntelligent Medical ObjectsmedicalMichael EricksenObservabilitySLISLO

CircleCI: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Single Wide Event

Using only a single event for each valuable business transaction, and packing it with fields, we can reduce event volume

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityCircleCIeventevent volumeGlen Mailer

Honeycomb Battle Scars: Lessons From Honeycomb Customers

This session is a roundtable discussion with speakers you've heard from throughout the conference. Each speaker will share their one

CustomersObservabilityCircleCIFrank ChenGlen MailerglofoxHelloFreshIMOJohn CaseyMichael EricksenObservabilityPierre VincentRedHatRenato TodorovSlack

hnycon Keynote

Join Honeycomb co-founders Christine Yen and Charity Majors for a look into the present and the future of observability, as

ObservabilityDevDevOpsObservabilityopsRich AnakorVanguard