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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

CustomersEngineering Best PracticesMigrationsObservabilityOpenTelemetryerror reportingfeature flagshot swappingmigrationmode analyticsObservabilityRyan KennedyTalia Trilling

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

Engineering Best PracticesMigrationsObservabilityOpenTelemetry

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

DebuggingEngineering Best PracticesAaron Aldrichconferencefeedback cyclesmulti-tenancy debuggingRedHat

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

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityCircleCIeventevent volumeGlen Mailer

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

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitychaos engineeringGremlinJason Yeeresilienceresilience engineeringunknown-unknowns

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

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityAmperityJosh Parsonspandemicremote

Killing Your Staging Environment

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

Engineering Best PracticescloudfareErwin van der KooghProductionstagingstaging environment

Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games

In episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced

DebuggingEngineering Best PracticesObservabilityCCP Gamesdebugginggamergamingnick herring

Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy

In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityAccessibilityCICDCronofyDeploysGarry Shutlerscheduling tools

Ep. #36, Resilience Engineering with Jacob Scott of Stripe

In episode 36 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jacob Scott of Stripe about the need for SRE teams,

Distributed TracingEngineering Best Practicesdistributed tracingJacob Scottresilienceresilience engineeringSREStripe

DevOps Unbound – The Road to GitOps

Hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Kurt Chase ‎Senior Director, Global Release Management of Tricentis, Charity Majors,

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityapplication lifecycle managementcontinuous improvementDevOpsfeedback loops