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The State of Observability 2021: Mature Teams Ship Better Code Faster and You Can Too

Jul 12, 2021 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
The 2021 Observability Maturity Community Research report is the first year-over-year look at the observability landscape and how practices are evolving. And they are 3X more likely to deliver high customer satisfaction. Which practices make all the difference when it comes to advancing the impact of your observability practice? Honeycomb's VP of Engineering, Emily Nakashima leads a discussion with Redmonk Co-founder James Governor, Honeycomb CTO and Co-founder Charity Majors, and Eaze's Sr. Software Engineer, Joe Thackery.
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How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing

Jul 8, 2021 By Eric Thompson In Honeycomb

Slack experienced meteoric growth between 2017 and 2020—but that level of growth came with growing pains. In his talk at the 2021 o11ycon+hnycon, Frank Chen (LinkedIn), a Slack Senior Staff Engineer, detailed one of Slack’s biggest pain points in that period: flaky tests. A flaky test returns both a passing and failing result despite no changes in the code. At one point, between 2017 and 2020, Slack’s flaky test rate reached as high as 50%.

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Designing Honeycomb for Our Users

Jun 24, 2021 By Sarrah Vesselov In Honeycomb

You might have noticed some visual changes happening in Honeycomb lately. Colors, typography, icons, and some features have started to look a bit different. While these changes are just beginning to make their way into the product, we’ve been working on them for some time. Let’s look at what has been going on behind the scenes to make them happen.

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o11ycon Keynote

Jun 22, 2021 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
presented at o11ycon+hnycon, June 9-10, 2021 Nora Jones, CEO @ Jeli, Charity Majors, CTO & Co-founder@ Honeycomb o11ycon Keynote Nora Jones and Charity Majors will share their experiences leading major movements shaping the future of shipping software. Nora Jones is CEO of Jeli, and former engineer at Netflix and Slack will share her research and experience with Chaos Engineering, human factors, and site reliability. Charity Majors is Honeycomb's CTO and co-founder, who pioneered Observability as a software practice for modern teams.
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OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting

Jun 21, 2021 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting: How to Prevent Downtime as Early as Local Dev OpenTelemetry is a great tool for observability and debugging in production. It provides you with data that empowers understanding of what is slow or broken, as well as what you can do to fix problems that occur in production. But what if you could leverage those same OpenTelemetry capabilities in pre-production? What if you could use those capabilities during development and testing phases to proactively prevent downtime in production?
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Conditional Distributed Tracing

Jun 21, 2021 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag, it's not. Span placement is also assumed to be an "always-on" system where spans are always added if the trace is active. For general availability and service-level objectives, this is usually good enough. But when we encounter problems, we need more. In this talk, I'll show you how to "turn up the dial" with detailed diagnostic spans and span events that are inserted using dynamic conditions.
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