hnycon Agenda

Honeycomb’s user conference designed to accelerate your path to production excellence through customer-led expert sessions, and an in-depth workshop.

June 10 2021 9:00 am June 10 2021 9:30 am America/Los_Angeles How is Culture Change Even a Thing? Lessons From Introducing Observability Across the HelloFresh Enterprise Adopting observability isn't as simple as upgrading your monitoring tools. Successful observability adoption requires a fundamental paradigm shift that changes the way engineers think about production... Virtual Meet
TRACK 1: Practical Lessons
Thursday, June 10 2021 9:00 am - 9:30 am PT

How is Culture Change Even a Thing? Lessons From Introducing Observability Across the HelloFresh Enterprise

Renato Todorov, Global VP of Engineering at HelloFresh
Adopting observability isn't as simple as upgrading your monitoring tools. Successful observability adoption requires a fundamental paradigm shift that changes the way engineers think about production...
June 10 2021 9:00 am June 10 2021 9:30 am America/Los_Angeles How Tracing Uncovers Half-truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure Traditional monitoring tools like logs and metrics were necessary but not sufficient to debug how and where systems failed in CI, which relies on multiple, interconnected critical systems (e.g. GHE, Checkpoint, Cypress). In this talk... Virtual Meet
TRACK 2: Mysteries Solved
Thursday, June 10 2021 9:00 am - 9:30 am PT

How Tracing Uncovers Half-truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure

Frank Chen, Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Traditional monitoring tools like logs and metrics were necessary but not sufficient to debug how and where systems failed in CI, which relies on multiple, interconnected critical systems (e.g. GHE, Checkpoint, Cypress). In this talk...
June 10 2021 9:00 am June 10 2021 9:30 am America/Los_Angeles Building Observability Metrics With OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is a popular open source, cloud-native observability framework with more than 900 active contributors from over 200 organizations. OpenTelemetry components and libraries can be used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis to understand your application and infrastructure behavior... Virtual Meet
TRACK 3: Honeycomb Product
Thursday, June 10 2021 9:00 am - 9:30 am PT

Building Observability Metrics With OpenTelemetry

Alolita Sharma, Principal Technologist at AWS
OpenTelemetry is a popular open source, cloud-native observability framework with more than 900 active contributors from over 200 organizations. OpenTelemetry components and libraries can be used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis to understand your application and infrastructure behavior...
June 10 2021 9:30 am June 10 2021 10:00 am America/Los_Angeles Observability & Refactoring in a Java Monolith: A Diary of Digging Out This talk covers hard lessons learned by a small team at Redhat over the past few years as they struggled to refactor a monolithic service to a more scalable and resilient architecture. In this talk, I'll cover the lessons we've learned about observability... Virtual Meet
TRACK 1: Practical Lessons
Thursday, June 10 2021 9:30 am - 10:00 am PT

Observability & Refactoring in a Java Monolith: A Diary of Digging Out

John Casey, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
This talk covers hard lessons learned by a small team at Redhat over the past few years as they struggled to refactor a monolithic service to a more scalable and resilient architecture. In this talk, I'll cover the lessons we've learned about observability...
June 10 2021 9:30 am June 10 2021 10:00 am America/Los_Angeles The Curious Case of the Latency Spike This talk investigates the aftermath of a production issue where performance diverges significantly from expected boundaries. To do that, the talk follows an application team as they debug and instrument to understand why their application behaves significantly worse under certain load parameters... Virtual Meet
TRACK 2: Mysteries Solved
Thursday, June 10 2021 9:30 am - 10:00 am PT

The Curious Case of the Latency Spike

Michael Ericksen, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Intelligent Medical Objects
This talk investigates the aftermath of a production issue where performance diverges significantly from expected boundaries. To do that, the talk follows an application team as they debug and instrument to understand why their application behaves significantly worse under certain load parameters...
June 10 2021 9:30 am June 10 2021 10:00 am America/Los_Angeles Introducing Honeycomb Metrics Announced in today's keynote, Honeycomb Metrics is a new product feature that lets you send metrics data to Honeycomb. This session is a deep-dive into how Honeycomb metrics work, how and when to use them, and what is supported as of today's open beta release... Virtual Meet
TRACK 3: Honeycomb Product
Thursday, June 10 2021 9:30 am - 10:00 am PT

Introducing Honeycomb Metrics

Max Edmands, Staff Product Engineer at Honeycomb
Announced in today's keynote, Honeycomb Metrics is a new product feature that lets you send metrics data to Honeycomb. This session is a deep-dive into how Honeycomb metrics work, how and when to use them, and what is supported as of today's open beta release...
June 10 2021 10:15 am June 10 2021 10:45 am America/Los_Angeles Case Study: Refinery at GOAT In this talk, I'll walk through the process of getting Refinery (Honeycomb's sampling solution) running at GOAT. I'll cover why we needed a sampling solution like Refinery, how we scaled and tuned Refinery to handle a large workload... Virtual Meet
TRACK 1: Practical Lessons
Thursday, June 10 2021 10:15 am - 10:45 am PT

Case Study: Refinery at GOAT

Kevan Carstensen, Backend Engineer at GOAT Group
In this talk, I'll walk through the process of getting Refinery (Honeycomb's sampling solution) running at GOAT. I'll cover why we needed a sampling solution like Refinery, how we scaled and tuned Refinery to handle a large workload...
June 10 2021 10:15 am June 10 2021 10:45 am America/Los_Angeles The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Single Wide Event Distributed tracing has seemingly become the biggest hook for adoption of observability tools. Trace waterfall renderings provide viscerally visual insight into the inner workings of our applications... Virtual Meet
TRACK 2: Mysteries Solved
Thursday, June 10 2021 10:15 am - 10:45 am PT

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Single Wide Event

Glen Mailer, Senior Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI
Distributed tracing has seemingly become the biggest hook for adoption of observability tools. Trace waterfall renderings provide viscerally visual insight into the inner workings of our applications...
June 10 2021 10:15 am June 10 2021 10:45 am America/Los_Angeles Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation Should Be Boring The world deserves vendor neutral instrumentation. At Honeycomb we believe in a future where instrumentation is table stakes. You shouldn’t have to worry about whether or not your particular language or framework is supported and you should never have to re-instrument your code from one format to another... Virtual Meet
TRACK 3: Honeycomb Product
Thursday, June 10 2021 10:15 am - 10:45 am PT

Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation Should Be Boring

Paul Osman, Lead Telemetry Engineer at Honeycomb
The world deserves vendor neutral instrumentation. At Honeycomb we believe in a future where instrumentation is table stakes. You shouldn’t have to worry about whether or not your particular language or framework is supported and you should never have to re-instrument your code from one format to another...
June 10 2021 10:45 am June 10 2021 11:15 am America/Los_Angeles Instrumenting for Game Servers Honeycomb can help you understand how unfamiliar systems actually behave, regardless of what you know about them upfront. I'm an engineer at Honeycomb and I host dedicated gameservers as a side hobby... Virtual Meet
TRACK 2: Mysteries Solved
Thursday, June 10 2021 10:45 am - 11:15 am PT

Instrumenting for Game Servers

Michael Simo, Platform Engineer at Honeycomb
Honeycomb can help you understand how unfamiliar systems actually behave, regardless of what you know about them upfront. I'm an engineer at Honeycomb and I host dedicated gameservers as a side hobby...
June 10 2021 10:45 am June 10 2021 11:15 am America/Los_Angeles How Honeycomb Manages Incident Response Honeycomb is a powerful tool for quickly identifying the source of application issues in production. As a result, faster incident response is one of the most common benefits that our customers first realize after getting started.. Virtual Meet
TRACK 3: Honeycomb Product
Thursday, June 10 2021 10:45 am - 11:15 am PT

How Honeycomb Manages Incident Response

Fred Hebert, Site Reliability Engineer at Honeycomb
Honeycomb is a powerful tool for quickly identifying the source of application issues in production. As a result, faster incident response is one of the most common benefits that our customers first realize after getting started..