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This guest post from Mark McBride of Turbine Labs is the fifth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. As a systems engineer, an undervalued part of your job is…
This guest post from Matt Klein of Lyft is the fourth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. Event based tracing, logging, and debugging are very powerful tools for distributed…
This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event Construction I like to think of it as switching…
Charity Majors
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By making your implicit assumptions and experiences explicit, others can…
Sam Stokes
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A log is a common solution. But hands up if…
Ben Hartshorne
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as smoothly as possible to minimize surprise on the part…
Chris Toshok
TL;DR await/async are awesome, and you should use them instead of callbacks wherever you can (which is everywhere.) Async functions for ECMAScript is a stage 3 (“candidate”) proposal for inclusion in the next version…
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were. Sometimes they are “true enough” to get you a…
Christine Yen
When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the internet, reliable and battle-hardened, but the logs are standard…
At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To that end, we have end-to-end (e2e) checks that run each minute, write a single data point…
This is the third of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, you’re tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems; the second…
This is the second of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, your flexibility is tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems….
This is the first of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics, each corresponding to one of the “pre”, “aggregated”, and “metrics” parts of the phrase. The second can be found here….
Welcome! This will be a semi-regular series, where we answer frequently asked questions in short, digestible bites. Or if you prefer long philosophical essays about the future of observability, go here. Ten short questions…
Anchor post at the top of this week’s long series of “vision” posts, so everything doesn’t just appear backwards. 🙂 This week we set forth the case for why Honeycomb is the future. We’ve…
No matter how much we love technology, it is always a means to an end. The mission comes first – we don’t do tech for its own sake, we use tech to get the…
DBAs may be the last remaining priesthood in our industry. But software engineers and operations engineers are increasingly finding themselves responsible for precious company data, and DBAs are increasingly adopting generalist skillsets and best…
Observability is not a thing for operations or some other team to care about. Software engineers, you are increasingly the primary owners of your own services … and this is a great thing. Developers,…
Any mature production system is likely to have hundreds of thousands if not millions of metrics, most of which never get looked at by a human. Metrics and logs are no longer human-scale, they…
Hello friends! We need to talk – about Honeycomb, you, and the future. We’ve built this thing to help ourselves and one another deal with the future of software. It isn’t Yet Another Monitoring…
