Honeycomb’s secret to high-performing teams

Gerhard talks with Charity Majors, ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io about high-performing teams, why “15 minutes or bust,” and how we should start using Honeycomb in our own monolithic Phoenix app that runs changelog.com. There is just one step, and it’s actually really simple!

They also talk about how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to learn about Honeycomb, which is one of Gerhard’s favorite questions. As for key take-aways, deploying straight into production is really important, but not as important as optimising for humans - which are not replaceable cogs, that learn and share their learnings continuously. That is the secret to making things easy and happy for everyone.

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Featuring:

• Charity Majors – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 📚 Observability Engineering (Early Release) - Free download
• 🎬 The State of Observability 2021: Mature Teams Ship Better Code Faster and You Can Too
• What is Observability?
• Define SLOs
• Kubernetes is complicated
• rubygems.org Fastly logs in Honeycomb
• RDS Performance Degradation – Postmortem 2018
• o11ycon 2021 videos
• hnycon 2021 keynote

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!