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Buildevents is a small binary used to help instrument builds to generate trace telemetry. It populates the trace with metadata from the GitHub Actions environment so you have details about what occurred throughout the entire build. In this tutorial, learn how to instrument with Buildevents and GitHub actions.

Nathan Lincoln, an SRE at Honeycomb, walks through the basics of feature flag best practices (using LaunchDarkly) to help you maintain a stable system. Feature flags are useful for reducing outages and downtime in our systems by allowing traffic segmentation, but they can create chaos without proper maintenance.

Tech debt. Vendor redundancy. System fragmentation. Startups and cloud–born companies are looking at vendors for cost-cutting opportunities. But how do you balance vendor costs and value when those resources and tools bring efficiencies as high as the monthly bills? In this session, Charity Majors and Gergely Orosz share advice on managing spend in a vendor-dependent world.

Hear from Odyssey Interactive to learn how they implemented Honeycomb to accelerate development time and resolve issues quickly.

Honeycomb's trace-aware proxy, Refinery, allows you to sample your data to reduce costs while giving you the ability to ensure the lowest margin of error on your most important data.

Welcome to The Authors’ Cut Series

Istio service meshes enable organizations to secure, connect, and monitor microservices to modernize their enterprise apps more swiftly and securely. With the addition of distributed tracing and powerful observability tooling, platform operators can gain immediate actionable insights about their applications.

Learn how Intercom implemented Honeycomb’s distributed traces to learn about production. Kesha Mykhailov, Product Engineer at Intercom joins Honeycomb Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr, and Account Executive Michael Wilde to discuss how Intercom uses distributed traces to streamline their observability workflows, allowing their product engineers to learn about and from their production to increase Intercom’s resilience. Topics include.

Stepping through a trace is an invaluable debugging workflow, providing a way to follow requests from service to service even as the applications we manage become more complex and distributed. That same complexity can make getting started with distributed tracing feel overwhelming, but it’s important to remember that instrumenting your code is an additive process—you don’t need to boil the ocean. A trace through a thousand services starts with a single ID.

Chris Bertinato, Software Architect at NS1, and Nate Daly, Head of Architecture at NS1 along with Jessica Kerr, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, and Account Executive Scott Phillips discuss how NS1 used distributed tracing to scale their organization and accelerate their migration from a monolith to microservices.