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Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn't before.

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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
3 years
After 5 years, observability is on engineering minds. But the message is a bit muddled—it’s not another term for telemetry or insights. We can't lose sight of its value. Cut beyond the hype in this post from @mipsytipsy :
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@honeycombio
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4 years
Big news: We closed a $20M Series B funding round, led by @eventuresVC with @scalevp @stormventures @NextWorldCap @MerianVentures and @IndustryVC ! CEO @cyen shares our plans to continue defining the future of observability.
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@honeycombio
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3 years
Everyone deserves the power of observability—and we just closed a $50M Series C funding round, led by @insightpartners , w/ participation from @scalevp , @HeadlineVC , @stormventures , @industryVC & @NextWorldCap , to bring Honeycomb to all!
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@honeycombio
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3 years
Alex Vondrak unpacks distributed column stores, what they are, how they work, and why they're an absolutely essential requirement for enabling observability.
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@honeycombio
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7 years
🐝Exciting news🐝 from the Hive!
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@honeycombio
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3 years
Don't worry about the shape of these hexes, we've looked this way for six years 😉 We're about making your developers productive with a wealth of production information, not about digital scarcity.
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@honeycombio
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6 years
Folks have been asking for a deeper guide to #observability , and we're here to help. Get your copy of ✨Achieving Observability✨:
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3 years
We love an experiment here at Honeycomb—which is why we’re thrilled to welcome our first-ever employee board member, @paulosman . Honeycomb employees literally have a seat at the table through this newly elected position. More on how and why here ⬇️
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@honeycombio
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2 years
1/ We’ve got some big news to share! We’ve raised a $50M Series D round that will ensure we can continue to invest – with conviction – in improving the lives of software engineering teams through #observability . @cyen details how in her latest post.
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
5 years
Our CTO @mipsytipsy headlines the NYT business section, talking about ethical B2B tech! "Especially at Facebook, with its model of harvesting personal data for ads, she increasingly had second thoughts. 'I did care about what the technology was used for.'"
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1 year
We’re thrilled to introduce Query Assistant, the first fully-executing Natural Language Querying capability for #observability using #generativeAI . Available now, learn more here ⬇️
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6 years
We are /completely/ thrilled to have you join us at the hive! 💖✨🐝🙌
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4 years
Get a preview copy of our new book: Observability Engineering, by @mipsytipsy and @lizthegrey . Observability is a fundamentally different approach to managing software in production. See why in this new book from @OReillyMedia Preview chapters here:
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2 years
Holy macaroni. The @OReillyMedia book Observability Engineering is FINISHED!! @mipsytipsy reflects on the process of writing the book with @lizthegrey and @gmiranda23 . Download yours FREE today and/or pre-order a hard copy.
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@honeycombio
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3 years
Tip: heatmap the HTTP status. It’s an integer! The bigger it is, the less we like it!
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@honeycombio
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8 years
Wherein @mipsytipsy lays out the lies your parents told you about logs and logging
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@honeycombio
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4 years
Here's what the downstream effects of a @Cloudflare outage looked like to our customer success team: some of our customers processed less traffic (and thus sent us less telemetry), while one had a traffic surge! Our measurements show the impact lasted 25 minutes and is now over.
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2 years
Honeycomb ruffled the first of many feathers nearly 7 years ago when we coined the term “observability” in talking about production code, shares @cyen . Today we get to celebrate being a Leader in the @Gartner_inc #MagicQuadrant for #APM & #Observability !
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3 years
We checked the docs, and it doesn't look like there's a 'terraform observe' command. I guess we'll just have to release a provider. Available now & verified by @HashiCorp ! Special thanks to community member @kvrhdn for getting things started!
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@honeycombio
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2 years
YOU KNOW, YOUR CODE WILL NEVER BE PERFECT BUT IF YOU COULD SEE INTO IT, YOU COULD UNDERSTAND WHY OBSERVABILITY IS IMPORTANT AND HOW EFFICIENT YOUR CODE COULD BE INSTEAD.
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@honeycombio
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4 years
Our first SRE @mononcqc talks about his experience interviewing with us, how to foster resilient organizations, and more. Check it out here:
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4 years
Our platform team recently migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. @mononcqc writes about the challenges and lesson learned:
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honeycomb.io
2 years
IT'S NOT ABOUT THREE PILLARS. IF ANYTHING, THE THREE THINGS THAT MATTER IN OBSERVABILITY ARE EXPLORABILITY OF YOUR DATA, HIGH-DIMENSIONALITY DATA, AND HIGH-CARDINALITY DATA. LOGS, METRICS, AND TRACES DON'T MATTER IF YOU CAN'T USE THEM TO BUILD BETTER USER EXPERIENCES.
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
6 years
We finally did it: now you can try Honeycomb out with a no-strings-attached live data demo! Query a real (anonymized) dataset of API server logs from an outage we had back in May and find out what having real #observability is like:
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@honeycombio
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4 years
We're excited to announce two new openings on our engineering team! Come join the hive! 🐝🍯🎉🌈 - Product Engineer - Platform Engineer (Job postings linked in thread.)
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honeycomb.io
3 years
I always tell people " #Observability is not logs, metrics, and traces! Observability is empowering your team to ask questions." While aspirational, it’s not exactly clear what this means. @iamvlaaaaaaad explains in his recent blog post.
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
4 years
Now is not the time to be silent. We are deeply saddened and angered by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and too many others; and by the violent responses to largely peaceful protests.
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4 years
Get a sneak peek into the upcoming book by @mipsytipsy , @lizthegrey , @gmiranda23 , “Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence”! Read the preview chapters here:
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
2 years
...ARBITRARILY WIDE STRUCTURED DATA BLOBS BACKED BY COLUMNAR STORE WITH FLEXIBLE SCHEMAS, LEVELED STORAGE AND SERVERLESS QUERY ENGINE RUN BY LAMBDA JOBS TO SUPPORT... It's the weekend, Stacy, could you just ... ... HIGH CARDINALITY, HIGH DIMENSIONALITY AND EXPLORABLE INTERFACE!
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
7 years
At. Your. Service. 🐝❣️🔥
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@honeycombio
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5 years
Introducing the first @opentelemetry trace exported into @honeycombio ! 445095ae- will be joined by far more traces soon, as the framework and our support matures!
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honeycomb.io
4 years
Trying to figure out what's happening in production without Honeycomb
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7 years
A *GUI* for #Golang profiling? Tell us more, @dotpem !
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6 years
Today's a big day here at the hive--we're really excited to share the newest addition to our #observability toolset: 🐝Honeycomb Tracing🐝
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4 years
In observance of Election Day in the US, Honeycomb will be closed on November 3rd. Our regular on-call rotation will continue as usual and we’ll respond to support channels when we’re back at our desks on Wednesday.
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@honeycombio
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3 years
Standup meetings. They were supposed to help teams work in a more agile manner, but let’s be real, they don’t work. So at Honeycomb, we decided to try meandering meetings instead. @bdarfler shares some tips to get started. Let us know what you think!
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@honeycombio
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3 years
See why they aren’t pillars? They’re just lenses:
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@honeycombio
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3 years
Take a look 👀 at our new office décor that we're pretty darn proud of! Thrilled to be part of the #AWS Graviton Ready Program. @AWS_Partners . #reInvent .
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@honeycombio
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1 year
1/ Tired of constant back-and-forth between dev & platform engineering teams? Welcome to the next level of Kubernetes-aware observability! HNY for K8s is an all-in-1️⃣ solution to the disjointed world of application and infrastructure monitoring! 🐝✨
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@honeycombio
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7 years
To be or not to be.. a Kafka controller Postmortem for a bug we hit yesterday 🐝🐝
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7 years
ever told someone to buzz off? we're looking for a security engineer to join our team (our first job posting!) 🐝 🌷
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8 years
People keep asking if we're in production or launched yet-- yes, yes we are. Come get your observability on!
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6 years
What if you could select the part of a graph you're interested in and get a bunch of charts telling you what's weird about the data in the part you selected? We just shipped the Beta of a feature codenamed Drilldown--& it's amazing. Sign up to try it out:
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3 years
Some great thoughts from @mononcqc regarding incident response in his #hnycon talk: “The changes we make don't cause outages. They highlight the misalignment between how we envision things to be and how they actually are.”
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5 years
OH in the Honeycomb community Slack: "I would like to make a complaint: I have just added a single honeycomb event to a service (no tracing) and it’s providing so much interesting data that I can’t get any real work done!" Buyer beware!🤩
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@honeycombio
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2 years
Hats off to our very own @lizthegrey , who has been promoted to Field CTO! In her new role, Liz will work closely with our customer (and soon-to-be customer) executive teams while also continuing to bring cutting-edge technologies into the Honeycomb fold.
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
7 years
Just when you thought statistical distributions couldn't be any prettier, @toshok is here to prove you wrong :)
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@honeycombio
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3 years
"Development IS production, this is where the industry is going!!" - @mipsytipsy and @monkchips
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@honeycombio
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6 years
There's been a lot of chatter lately about how Service Ownership means engineers should be on-call. 🐝 @djpiebob 🐝 talks about how on-call has changed since the days when she was woken by the pager, and how #observability can be your new 💖valentine💖:
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@honeycombio
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7 years
Are you wondering if structured logging is right for you? This post from @_emfree_ will help! (Spoiler: Yes, it probably is :))
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3 years
“It’s not about making systems that never fail, it’s about making systems that fail without impacting customers while still being able to learn and test.” - @mipsytipsy
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@honeycombio
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2 years
You know, less an observability economist and more an observability destroyer of worlds. (Image description: @mipsytipsy and @QuinnyPig partying it up in the @Honeycombio offices, with her trademark colorful hair and his trademark open mouth face)
@jessitron
Jessica Joy Kerr
2 years
The future of the internet in 2050, or something
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@honeycombio
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7 years
Unspeakably excited to share our very first case study--how @intercom uses Honeycomb to see what their customers are *really* doing--and plan for the future of their service:
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@honeycombio
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4 years
Honeycomb open job reqs! We're currently hiring for the following roles: - Product Manager - Customer Success Engineer - Product Engineer - Engineering Manager - Account Executive (Job postings and additional information linked in thread.)
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@honeycombio
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3 years
If you loved Accelerate and the DORA Report, this will be right up your alley: a long-overdue, open-sourced data dump of real outages. Yours. Ours. Companies big and small have contributed their outage reports to seed this repo of what *really* happens when things goes sideways.
@verica_io
verica
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We are so excited to share the VOID with the world! We've been working on it for a while and we hope you love it and find the 2021 VOID Report useful.
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Your approach to logging is a reflection of your team's culture: in this guest blog post, @adrukh talks about how teaching your code to communicate with your team can build trust and transparency in your organization.
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
3 years
We wrote a book! Well, @mipsytipsy , @lizthegrey , and @gmiranda23 did and it’s all about #observability . We have preview chapters available for your reading pleasure – hurry and take a look before it hits a bookstore near you:
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@honeycombio
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8 years
thought for the day: what idiot called it "honeycomb" and not "strace for microservices"? 🤔
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@honeycombio
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4 years
Get a preview copy of our new book: Observability Engineering, by @mipsytipsy and @lizthegrey . Observability is a fundamentally different approach to managing software in production. See why in this new book from @OReillyMedia Preview chapters here:
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@honeycombio
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7 years
k8s + honeycomb = kubservability! 🙏to the kind folks @heptio for helping build our k8s agent + ksonnet mixin 💖🐝
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8 years
would it be unprofessional to say "shit's getting real, yo"? ok then: welcome to honeycomb.
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5 years
We've been talking about the value & benefits of defining SLOs for a while, and now we're proud to formally offer Honeycomb SLO as part of our #observability toolset. @FisherDanyel explains how it works and how you can define what matters to your business:
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Get a sneak peek into upcoming book by @mipsytipsy , @lizthegrey , @gmiranda23 , “Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence”! Read the preview chapters here:
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We’ve listened to your feedback: you want more predictable usage with less management. We think taking an event-based view does that. Developer Advocate @shelbyspees breaks down what that means.
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7 years
Starting to think about observability and need a list of best practices? 🐝 @mipsytipsy 🐝 has got you (and future you!) covered:
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6 years
We had a brief outage last week, this is what happened:
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4 years
Get a sneak peek into the upcoming book by @mipsytipsy , @lizthegrey , and @gmiranda23 , "Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence”! Read the preview chapters here:
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
5 years
It's important to remove feature flags from your code once they're no longer needed. Otherwise, they can accumulate as excess complexity and technical debt. @akvanh tells us how she remembers to delete them at the right time days, weeks, or months later!
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@honeycombio
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7 years
Aggregates destroy details. Events tell stories. — @mipsytipsy
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5 years
Conferences need resiliency too. Cheers @GremlinInc for a swift and seamless failover to a distributed event in the face of COVID-19. Register now for #FailoverConf & join us virtually next month.
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3 years
#changelog CONCURRENCY Visualization. The new CONCURRENCY visualization lets you figure out how many spans are active at any time. Available on any tracing dataset -- learn more at the docs page. 👉
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@honeycombio
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8 years
our first instrumentation post is by @AntoineGrondin , on "The First Four Things You Measure". 📈❤️
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
2 years
With the release of our latest innovations—a new Service Map and improvements to make BubbleUp more useful and accessible than ever—we’re setting the new standard for what #observability tools should be able to do for you. @cyen shares more:
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6 years
There's been a bit of discussion recently about what an "event" is vs a log line; @mipsytipsy promised a blog post from 🐝 @maplebed 🐝 and he delivered! What's the difference, and how can you make both work for you?
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5 years
We put Amazon EC2 M6g instances to the test, and can now report our observations (collected in high-resolution by Honeycomb itself, of course!)
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@honeycombio
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6 years
"We evaluated various products in the APM / monitoring space. Honeycomb blew us away." Hearing this, & about how Honeycomb has changed the way @travisci operates their business makes us all 💖warm & squishy inside.💖 Find out what #observability can do:
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@honeycombio
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4 years
Right now, we’re listening and learning. We support employees who choose to protest or otherwise work toward these causes, and are also working on a long-term plan of action as a business. Black Lives Matter.
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3 years
Did you catch us at #SREcon today? If not, be sure to stop by tomorrow! Receive your temp tattoos by @mipsytipsy and other fun giveaways like our "i test in prod" t-shirt just for hanging out with us bees! 🐝
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4 years
Cheers to the Honeycomb team! Great job on the new pricing launch! 🍾🥂
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2 years
We're so proud of you @lizthegrey ! 🐝💛
@awscloud
Amazon Web Services
2 years
#AWS Heroes are passionate builders who share knowledge & inspire others. 🦸‍♀️☁️💡 Congratulations to our newest AWS Heroes driving impact in the #CloudCommunity . Thank you @Al_Grigor , @lizthegrey , @fantasticHsieh , & @AllenHeltonDev . 👉
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5 years
Head of Product Megan Gleason ( @fishmegs ) shares Honeycomb's new Free Plan: "At Honeycomb, we believe that the practice of observability can change lives for the better — so we want to help as many people as possible get started on that path."
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2 years
@ceejbot Your friends at Honeycomb are happy to talk if you are interested! Take a glance at the roles we have open and also we should have some stuff coming up soon.
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3 years
We have some strong opinions on the interviewing & hiring process: Namely, that it is broken af in our industry for engineering and non-engineering roles. @Mipsytipsy sat down with new(ish) Honeybee, @lovemiliz to learn about her hiring experience.
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"bees don't push their young out of the nest, right?" "no, the new queen kicks the old queen out of the hive." (silence) #businessmeetings
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honeycomb.io
2 years
It's official, Honeycomb has an entity in Canada 🇨🇦! We’ve incorporated in the province of Ontario and have officially hired our 8 Canadian employees as full-time honeybees. But we’re always looking for more great talent in the provinces to join the hive.
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4 years
o11ycon+hnycon is happening June 9–10, and we're announcing an open call for presentations! We'd love to hear from you—deadline for submissions is April 30. Check out this blog for more details:
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
5 years
New developer advocate @shelbyspees describes what it's like starting a new job and a new role, amidst a pandemic, and her journey from being a teacher to a DevOps Engineer to our newest bee here at Honeycomb!
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
3 years
In the words of @jessitron , "Let's say you go on a road trip, take a bunch of photos, print them out and then just dump them in a drawer. Well, that's like logging. But if you take those photos and pin them along your route on a big map, that's more like distributed tracing."
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We're all abuzz and excited to share that our former Head of Product is now our first-ever VP 🐝 of Product! Congrats @fishmegs !
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
8 years
Honeycomb Elevayor Pitch: we combine the best of APM, log aggregation, and system metrics in one clean interface. NewRelic+Splunk+DataDog=🐝
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honeycomb.io
7 years
You may have noticed that we're hiring! Hiring well is not easy, but as @mipsytipsy explains, we're putting a lot of careful thought into it here at Honeycomb:
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@honeycombio
honeycomb.io
5 years
Congrats @glitch on launching your paid tier! We’ve had great success using Glitch projects as a teaching tool during @opentelemetry workshops for Go, Python, and JavaScript!
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