Culture

April 20, 2022

Why UX Designers Don’t Feel Valued—and Why This Is a Problem for Your Business

It’s time we had a real conversation about why UX designers everywhere are still unhappy, why that elusive “seat at the table” feels so impossibly out of reach to so many (even at companies…

Culture

Teams & Collaboration

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December 28, 2021

Charity Majors

How to Know Whether Your New Job Is a Shitshow or Not

We here at Honeycomb have some pretty strong opinions on the interviewing and hiring process: Namely, that it is broken af in our industry, for engineering and non-engineering roles alike. Too often, it seeks…

Culture

October 28, 2021

Megan Gleason

Cut Out Time Estimates on Roadmaps: Get Into a Product Delivery Rhythm

All of the business of software, but especially the delivery of product capabilities, is inextricably bound up in questions about time. What’s the estimate? If we have N people working on it, how long…

Culture

Teams & Collaboration

October 26, 2021

Ben Darfler

Stand-Up Meetings Are Dead (and What to Do Instead)

Stand-up meetings. Is anyone happy with them at this point? They were supposed to help teams work in a more agile manner but they were already controversial in the before times and moving to…

Culture

Teams & Collaboration

October 4, 2021

Charity Majors

The Blog Is Dead; Long Live the Blog

Ever since the very beginning, Honeycomb has poured a lot of heart and soul into our blog. We take pride in knowing it isn’t just your typical stream of feature updates and marketing promotions,…

Culture

July 22, 2021

Eric Thompson

How Vanguard used Observability to Accelerate and De-risk their Cloud Migration

Rich Anakor, chief solutions architect at Vanguard, is on a small team with a big goal: Give Vanguard customers a better experience by enabling internal engineering teams to better understand their massively complex production…

Culture

March 4, 2021

Charity Majors

Honeycomb Welcomes New VP of Product

I’m happy to announce that Megan Gleason, formerly Head of Product at Honeycomb, has been promoted to VP of Product. Prior to Honeycomb, Megan was Director of Product at both Auth0 and Chef Software….

Culture

News & Announcements

January 14, 2021

Kelly Gallamore

Community wins for the o11ydays!

The observability community helped us pay it forward for the o11ydays! Read about the contest winners and Honeybees’ favorite responses.

Culture

Debugging

January 5, 2021

Shelby Spees

2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Developer Advocate Shelby Spees bookends 2020 with appreciation for her team and the community.

Culture

December 28, 2020

George Miranda

Honeycomb’s 2020 Blog Roundup

We’re here at last: the final days of 2020. Let’s take a look back at this year’s most popular Honeycomb blog posts. Observability 101 In Observability 101: Terminology and Concepts, Shelby Spees reflects on…

Culture

December 24, 2020

George Miranda

Introducing the o11yday Bootcamp

Getting started with observability (o11y) is now easier than ever with the new step-by-step o11yday Bootcamp guide. Now’s a great time to try out Honeycomb, get help if you’re stuck, and pick up a…

Culture

Observability

December 31, 2019

Rachel Perkins

2019: The Year Bee-hind Us

Once again we are at the end of another year, facing into the endless potential of the next one, and thinking back on the fun and hard work behind us. Join me now in…

Culture

November 27, 2019

Deirdre Mahon

Why I’m Grateful For Our Observability Community

It’s that season, when we take time to consider what we’re grateful for and extend thanks to those we value and the experiences we treasure. One special aspect of America’s Thanksgiving holiday is the…

Culture

November 7, 2019

Kelly Gallamore

Becoming A Manager of Engineering Managers: What You Need To Know

In October Charity Majors joined Ian Nowland [VP | Eng | Datadog] and Rich Archibold [Sr Dir | Eng | Intercom] in a live panel discussion for Gitprime. Hosted by Marcus Blankenship, Becoming a…

Culture

Teams & Collaboration

January 23, 2018

Charity Majors

Observations on the Enterprise of Hiring

Almost everybody hates interviewing. You aren’t wrong to hate it: interviewing is fucking broken, in ways that tear you down and rob you of your self-respect and your will to live.

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