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Tradeoffs on the Road to Observability – With Animation

The main way to improve sustainability of services is to empower engineers, not just SREs, to understand their systems. Liz

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitycultureincident responseproduction excellencereleasereliabilityresiliencysite reliabilitySLOsocio-technicalSRE

Ep. #18, Real User Monitoring with Michael Hood of Optimizely

In episode 18 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Michael Hood, a senior staff performance engineer at Optimizely. They

APMMetricsObservabilityAPMmetricsMichael HoodmonitoringOptimizelyperformancereal user monitoringRUM

Observability Maturity Community Research Findings

Adopting observability tools, site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, and a culture of shared ownership translates to efficiencies across the software

ObservabilityCICDdevelopmentDORAincident responseObservabilityproduction excellenceSLOsurveysystem optimizationtech debt

Ep. #17, Leveling Up Software Delivery with Pete Hodgson

In episode 17 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Pete Hodgson, an independent software delivery consultant. They discuss

CI/CD PipelinesEngineering Best PracticesObservabilityCICDdeliveryDORAPete Hodgsonrelease

SEDNA’s Product Team Reduces Reliance on Internal Team Knowledge with

SEDNA's Product team wanted to consolidate and bring consistency to their monitoring and alerting. Incident response relied too much on

CustomersEngineering Best PracticesHigh CardinalityObservabilityalertingAPMcollaborationDevOpsincident responsemonitoringperformancereliabilityresilienceSEDNA

Ep. #16, Observability and Test Engineers with Abby Bangser of MOO

In episode 16 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Abby Bangser of MOO. They discuss observability from a

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Optimizely Innovates Safely At Speed with Honeycomb

Being able to ask any question and get answers fast with Honeycomb meant Optimizely could take an "evolutionary step" and

CustomersObservabilityCICDdebugdebuggingdeploymonitoringobservability driven developmentOptimizelyreleasesystem optimizationunknown-unknowns

Eaze Into Observability

Join us to learn how Eaze reduced the costs of running their service and increased customer happiness at the same

CustomersEngineering Best PracticesLogsObservabilitybuild pipelineCICDmicroservicesmigrationmonolithobservingoncall

Student Beans Solves Issues, Levels Up Immediately with Honeycomb

The team at Student Beans weren't able to locate issues or trust the data they were getting from their cumbersome

CustomersDebuggingObservabilityCICDdebugdebuggingdeliveryDevOpsELKincident responsereleaseStudent Beansunknown-unknowns

Ep. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of Intercom

In episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial

Engineering Best PracticesHigh CardinalityObservabilitydeployHigh cardinalityIntercomreleaseRich Archboldship

Honeycomb Learn Ep. 5 Never Alone On Call

Switch from deep query to a trace waterfall view and spot outliers with Honeycomb BubbleUp heatmaps. These make debugging effortless,

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A New Framework for An Observability Maturity Model

Everyone is talking about "observability," but mapping out a game plan to get there has not yet been clearly defined.

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