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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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Ep. #50, Identifying Weak Spots with Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit

In episode 50 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit. This conversation examines

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Best Practices Using Honeycomb and Terraform Provider With Hashicorp – thanks

Jason Harley, Honeycomb Senior Customer Architect and Hashicorp Ambassador, and Nic Jackson, Principal Developer Advocate at Hashicorp, demonstrate best practices

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Achieving Production Excellence – O’Reilly Book download 2022

Authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda cut through the marketing hype to concretely demonstrate what observability is, how

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How Glofox Gives Their Developers Ownership Over Observability – thanks

Pierre Vincent and Rob Meaney were able to join forces to establish a culture of observability and give their developers

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How to Hot-Swap Active Production Services

Download and read the guide to learn how to hot-swap active production services successfully and what pitfalls to avoid.

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Controlling Features in Production: Observability + Feature Flags

We often think about speed and danger as being closely related, but we now have empirical proof that faster, smaller

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Building Observability in Your CircleCI Deploy

In this talk, you’ll learn how Honeycomb keeps its CircleCI workflow duration at about 10 minutes per build through parallelizing

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