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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

Engineering Best PracticesObservability

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

Engineering Best PracticesObservability

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

Engineering Best PracticesMigrations

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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Stepping Our Way Into Resilient Services

Is it possible to discover unknown-unknowns proactively with Chaos Engineering? Where exactly is the intersection between intentionally breaking production services

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Driving Observability Adoption Forward as an Internal Champion… During a

Josh from Amperity covers how they planned, strategized, and organized their observability tooling evaluation. Josh also shares how the COVID-19

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Killing Your Staging Environment

“But it worked in staging!” is the new “But it works in my machine!” Docker, Kubernetes, and friends have made

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