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Honeycomb is an application monitoring tool that helps DevOps and SRE teams to operate more efficiently by offering rich observability solutions and intuitive team collaboration. It helps understand complex relationships within your distributed systems and troubleshoot issues accordingly. Squadcast is an end-to-end incident response tool. Built with an SRE mindset, it streamlines all the incident response activities.

Software companies face more challenges than ever before to keep pace in an ever-evolving industry that requires innovation and reliability. The pressure to adapt to fast-moving and sophisticated technologies can easily create silos amongst teams and a lack of visibility within organizations. With legacy technology stacks and systems now in the rearview mirror, the focus of large-scale software development has shifted to ensuring standardization and distributed computing in a growingly serverless world.

In preparation for the upcoming Developer Observability Masterclass we’re hosting at Lightrun with Thoughtworks and RedMonk, I sat down for a brief interview with Tom Granot – the Director of Developer Relations at Lightrun. Tom will MC the event as he did for the Developer Productivity Masterclass we ran back in December.

TL;DR: startSpan is easier and measures a duration. Use it if your work won’t create any subspans. startActiveSpan requires that you pass a callback for the work in the span, and then any spans created during that work will be children of this active span. I’m instrumenting a Node.js app with OpenTelemetry, and adding some custom instrumentation. For this important activity that I’m doing (let’s call it “retrieve number”), I’m creating a custom span.

Those of us of a certain age know well the saying “Nobody got fired for buying IBM.” In the log analysis and security world, we’ve become lucky to get to the point where people are saying “Nobody gets fired for buying Splunk.” Our success in these areas has definitely created a perception for what products Splunk has and what we can offer to our customers. The problem is that most of these perceptions don’t capture the full power of Splunk.

Software developments take place quickly as per the client’s requirements. The developments need to take place with safety and precautions. DevOps engineers can help into this matter; however, it is not possible without Observability.

We’re well into 2022, and it’s full steam ahead addressing challenges and moving IT and SRE projects to completion. Are you ready for the challenges ahead of you? Do you feel prepared to handle the work you know about…and the work that’s sure to come your way? Are you ready for the end-of-the-year budget planning process that will be here before you know it? To help, I’d like to share my learnings from 20+ years in IT.

Previously announced as a community-led project, the Terraform provider for Honeycomb is now officially maintained by Honeycomb in partnership with Hashicorp. We recognize how valuable supporting configuration as code is for our customers, and this change in ownership affirms our commitment to ensuring your ability to quickly make the most of Honeycomb’s Management API.