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How to Manage Costs in a Vendor-Dependent World

In this session, Charity Majors and Gergely Orosz provide advice on how to think through cutting costs in a vendor-dependent

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Successful Sampling With Refinery

Honeycomb's trace-aware proxy, Refinery, allows you to sample your data to reduce costs while giving you the ability to ensure

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityrefinerytrace-aware proxy

Platform Engineering Is the Future of Ops

Dig deep into how the future of ops is headed toward platform engineering. You will learn more about the benefits

Engineering Best Practices

Learn to Leverage Service Maps with Honeycomb – thanks

Having a service map is great, but what can you actually do with one? Wouldn’t it be great if you

Engineering Best PracticesObservability

Options for Managing Telemetry Volume At Scale & How Slack

You’ll learn the pros and cons of different sampling techniques and how to retain granular visibility into your system state.

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityOpenTelemetry

Ep. #55, The Dev Side of Observability with Martin Thwaites

In episode 55 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Martin Thwaites, a developer advocate at Honeycomb. They discuss the

Engineering Best PracticesLogsObservabilitybuild pipelinecontext switchingDevOpsMartin Thwaitesscaling

Accelerate CI/CD with Observability – thanks

We are joined in this session by Frank Chen, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Slack, who dives into how Slack gained

CI/CD PipelinesEngineering Best PracticesObservability

Changing Practices on Your Team – Observability Driven Development – thanks

In this session, we discuss the patterns we’ve observed at Honeycomb that have helped organizations reap the rewards of observability

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityobservability driven developmentODD

Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Buy

Resolve incidents quickly with the powerful core analysis loop of an observability tool—where anyone on the team can form hypotheses,

DebuggingEngineering Best PracticesObservability

How Observability Relates to DevOps, SRE, & Cloud-Native – thanks

We unpack how observability fits into the landscape of other modern practices, such as DevOps, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and

Engineering Best PracticesObservability

Ep. #52, Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9

In episode 52 of o11ycast, Charity and Jess speak with Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9. Alex shares his formative experiences advocating

Engineering Best PracticesSLOsAlex HidalgoNobl9reliabilityService Level ObjectivesSLOsociotechnical

Ep. #51, Performance Engineering with Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace

In episode 51 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace. This conversation covers

Engineering Best PracticesInstrumentationObservabilityauto instrumentationcomplexitydynatraceHenrik Rexedperformance engineeringvendor lock-in