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Eyes Wide Open: o11y From Theory to Practice

Peter covers his team's journey, including how they did the early integration, included interactions with existing tooling that was available

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Habits of Highly-Performing Teams

There is a yawning gap opening up between the best and the rest—the elite top few percent of engineering teams

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Identifying Hidden Dependencies

Learn how Honeycomb improved the reliability of our Zookeeper, Kafka, and stateful storage systems through terminating nodes on purpose.

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Embedding Observability Into Your Engineering Culture

How can you create a safe culture that enables engineers to learn, try, and test? The data unlocked by observability

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Cultivating Production Excellence

Taming the complex distributed systems is not just changing tools and techniques. It also requires changing who is involved in

Engineering Best Practicescultureincident responseoncallproduction excellencereleasereliabilityresiliencySLOsocio-technicalSRE

Fast & Simple: Observing Code & Infra Deployments at Honeycomb

In this talk, you'll learn about the architecture and operational practices used by an engineering team of less than a

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Ask an SRE Panel

Follow along as SRE leaders from Slack, Fastly, Catchpoint, and Autodesk discuss defining SRE, avoiding pitfalls, managing incident anxiety, informing

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The Socio-Technical Path to High Performing Teams – With Animation

We are far behind where we should be as a profession when it comes to how much of our effort

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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

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Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store

Building Honeycomb, we needed a low-latency, distributed, schemaless database. NBD for Facebook, but we faced multi-tenancy, cost to serve, and

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