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Feature Focus: March 2023

Honeycomb

Documentation updates In the spirit of spring cleaning, we’ve made some minor tweaks to how articles are organized to make things easier to find. Buildevents is a utility that creates distributed traces out of your CI/CD pipelines, where spans represent build tasks and testing. Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy.

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Sending OpenTelemetry Data From AWS Lambda to Honeycomb

Honeycomb

You might be aware that AWS offers their own distributed tracing product, AWS X-Ray. As a mature standard, it provides a portable and vendor-neutral way to send telemetry signals (traces, metrics, and logs) to your provider of choice. Why Honeycomb? Why OpenTelemetry? Why AWS SAM? Why Python? An account with Honeycomb.

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How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing

Honeycomb

So Frank set out to find a solution by using observability to trace Slack’s CI logic. Flakiness rate per PR—consisting of individual commits and up to hundreds of tests—became a guiding service level objective (SLO) to understand and improve the CI user experience. Slack’s tracing solution: SpanEvents, SlackTrace, and Honeycomb.

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How I Discovered The Values That Led Me To Leadership Success

Terry Starbucker

My More Human Leadership philosophy and practice is guided by 8 core principles. It’s one of my favorite chapters from my “More Human” book manuscript, a project that has yet to fully see the light of day (and that’s another blog post in and of itself, but I’ll save it for another time).

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Effective Trace Instrumentation with Semantic Conventions

Honeycomb

However, I’ve not found many guides on the craft of instrumenting code in order to have a good observability experience in your system. A useful guide is the OpenTelemetry documentation for libraries. OK, not exactly, but that mental model adds to the justification for full-stack, high-quality instrumentation.

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Monitoring vs Visibility vs Full-stack Observability: Understanding Codegiant's Comprehensive Approach

Codegiant

Three key concepts in this context are monitoring, visibility, and Full-stack Observability. Full-stack Observability , on the other hand, represents a comprehensive approach, integrating monitoring and visibility across the entire technology stack. Codegiant stands out for its application of Full-stack Observability.

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Read this article to learn how top organizations benefit from Kubernetes, what it can do, and when its magic fails to work properly. Clearly, there must be a mechanism to coordinate the work of such complex distributed systems, and that’s exactly what Kubernetes was designed for by Google back in 2014. What is Kubernetes?