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What Is Platform Engineering? A Getting Started Guide

Modern software development can often feel like orchestrated chaos, and with good reason. The processes, tools, and SaaS services are

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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry

No one ever said observability would be easy, right? But OpenTelemetry is a significant step towards “easier” observability because it’s

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Getting Started With Distributed Tracing

The more complex the software, the more likely it is to break, so the question facing modern DevOps teams today

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How Observability Helps With Incident Response

No one knows what they don’t know. That rather elusive statement is at the heart of one of the biggest

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Understanding High Cardinality and Its Role in Observability

Complex distributed systems generate vast amounts of granular data that is ideal for diagnostics. Most of the time… But it

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SLOs, SLAs, SLIs: What’s the Difference?

At the end of the day, so much of software development is wrapped up in two basic concepts: happy customers

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What Is Observability Engineering?

Although it may seem like something out of fantasy, it is possible to find out what you don’t know you

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Upleveling Engineering Productivity with Observability

Promote happier and healthier engineering teams, optimize cost and performance, and deliver more innovation by implementing observability. Whether you’re starting

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[Webinar] De-Risk Your Deployments with Honeycomb & GitHub Actions Deployment

De-Risk Your Deployments with Honeycomb & GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules

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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

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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

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