Honeycomb.io System Status Updates (@honeycombio) on X (original) (raw)

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  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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  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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  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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  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. bit.ly/3zAkYwH
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  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 ⬇️ go.hny.co/3F1iicE
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  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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  Developer startup Honeycomb, founded by
  @mipsytipsy
  and
  @cyen
  raises $20 million as growth surges
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  We are /completely/ thrilled to have you join us at the hive! 💖✨🐝🙌
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  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: go.hny.co/2WGVRVr