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In this episode, special guest Blake Sherwood joins the show to discuss his unique career trajectory from tourism and coal mining to leading massive-scale Kubernetes migrations. Blake shares insights from his experience managing petabytes of data in high-compliance environments, delving into the practical realities of integrating AI into enterprise workflows and observability systems.

Developer experience predicts what's coming 3 to 6 months before it shows up in your delivery metrics. So why are most engineering leaders measuring it last? In this session, GitKraken VP of Developer Research Jeremy Castile breaks down what developer experience (DevX) actually is, how to measure it across 6 key dimensions, and how it connects to velocity, code quality, and AI impact data your team is already tracking.

Canvas skills are how your team's runbooks and tribal knowledge become an active part of the investigation instead of a document someone has to remember to open. Pre-built skills cover the most common investigation patterns out of the box. Custom skills let you encode the specific context, thresholds, and decision logic your team has accumulated, so every auto-investigation starts with your best thinking already applied.

Honeycomb's Innovation Week: Observability for the Agent Era (May 12-14) For Day 2 of Innovation Week, Honeycomb's product and engineering teams will take you inside the new capabilities purpose-built for the agent era. Expect live demos, real scenarios, and a hands-on look at what it means to own observability for the Agentic era, with AI in Honeycomb to observe AI in production. A 3-Day Virtual Event for Teams Building the Future May 12: Get insights on how the best engineering teams are tackling the challenges of the agentic era.

Watch a full replay of all sessions and demos on Day 2 of Honeycomb's Innovation Week.

Watch this video to see Agent Timeline in action: one conversation ID, one view, every agent invocation, LLM call, tool call, and downstream trace, so you stop stitching tabs together and start finding the failure in seconds.

Watch this video to see the re-imagined Canvas in action, where auto-investigation has already ranked your hypotheses before you open the tab, multiplayer agents build on each other's work in real time, and a custom skill encoding your team's own runbook can reprioritize the entire incident before you've had your morning coffee.

Avoid surprise vendor contracts; work with leadership to ensure that IT is included in any procurement policy.

Note: We're happy to share that since the recording of this video, OpenTelemetry *has* graduated from the CNCF! SREs, developers, and CTOs say open source is essential to observability. Engineering managers and directors? Not so much. Grafana's 4th annual observability survey — 1,363 responses — reveals a split inside the same orgs that's worth a conversation.

In this video, see how Skylar One helps you understand the impact of changes on application performance and the end user experience. By tracking service level metrics across an e commerce environment, you can quickly identify when performance degrades and how it affects user behavior. Explore how Skylar One enables: With Skylar One, teams can quickly connect performance changes to real user impact, helping ensure a consistent and reliable digital experience.