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How Intelligent Medical Objects Solved a Mysterious Spike in Latency

Michael Ericksen, Staff Site Reliability Engineer, explains how IMO implemented observability and established a culture of production excellence when a

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How to Use a Single Wide Event to Its Fullest

Glen Mailer, Senior Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI believes not everything can or should be solved with tracing and sampling.

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Ep. #43, Going Serverless with Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis of Cinch

In episode 43 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis of Cinch. They discuss Cinch's move from

Engineering Best PracticesApostolis (Toli) ApostolidisCinchserverlessTeam Topologies

Ep. #42, Continuous Profiling with Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope

In episode 42 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope. They discuss continuous profiling practices,

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How Refinery Helps With Sampling Complex Event Data

In his talk at the 2021 hnycon, Kevan Carstensen, Backend Engineer at GOAT, explained that GOAT’s small backend team is

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Coding a New Customer Experience: How Vanguard Upleveled Their Org

Rich Anakor, Chief Solutions Architect at Vanguard, runs a small team with a colossal goal: Give Vanguard customers a top-notch

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Four Lessons Red Hat Learned From Refactoring a Monolithic Service

John Casey is a DevOps engineer and architect who leads the team at Red Hat that’s responsible for CI/CD and

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Mode Analytics: Hot-Swapping Active Production Services Reliably With Honeycomb

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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