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August 2018

How To Share Your Brain: Collaborate With Boards

As we are fond of saying here at Honeycomb, context is king, and one of our favorite ways to share the context in our brains is with Boards. We recommend using Boards to share query structures you’ve developed for reuse, share visual graphs for ongoing review of systems, share your brain with your colleagues…and your future self.

Why Observability Matters - Christine Spang

The macro landscape in software has changed in the last decade—metrics, monitoring, unstructured logs, and alerting aren't enough to tell what our software is doing anymore. This opening keynote will focus on how we've achieved observability on the Nylas platform, using many concrete examples—and will show what observability means to us and where we're still lacking.

Share Context With Collaboration: Suggested Query Boards

Nobody knows your services/infra better than you, not even Honeycomb. If there’s one maxim for Honeycomb, it’s that context is king. Context determines the questions you can ask. The only way to make complex systems truly tractable is to make all questions possible. Ergo: more context. Context everywhere. Context coming out of the walls. You should be awash in context.