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If you're ever tempted to start a "top women in X" list, for the love of God please stop and consider putting them on your "top in X" list. Fuck this pink ghetto trash.
I am sure people mean well, but this is not a compliment, it is condescension.

Relegating stories about women leaders and founders to special issues and the Style pages is not helpful.
Do you know how many journalists have wanted to write about honeycomb for the past three years?

Yeah, lots, which would be GREAT if they wanted to write about how we are shaking up multiple established industries instead of the freak show oddity of Two Female Founders.
I flatly refused. Every time.

It's just gross. And not only that, it is *tired*. I've read this story a thousand times. Everyone has. Do better.
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We have ~200 customers, some high volume enterprises, unpredictable traffic in a multitenant distributed system, and a single on call rotation...and our devs get alerted outside business hours around ✨once per week✨

On call does not have to be hell.
Oh, and we deploy code from cron. 🤘

It is absolutely harder to dig yourself out of a hole than to avoid falling into one in the first place. I don't want to minimize the magnitude of the work.
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And most startups don't have the benefit of an ops co-founder from day one.
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A: Yes, there are many aspects of instrumentation and observability that are worth investing in, even for monoliths. Distributed systems are just where the pain of *not* doing so becomes prohibitive.
This is largely for historical reasons. Due to hardware cost, we optimized for skimpy metrics data, and generations of engineers grew up fitting their thinking and tooling around scarce data types like metrics instead of richer event-trace data.
It is categorically easier to debug and understand your systems with o11y than with scattered, aggregated/averaged/aggregated metrics.

It's incredibly hard to form a mental reconstruction (or hazard a few guesses) about why events are erroring when all you have are dashboards.
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Everyone told us this was a solved problem, a crowded space, we'd never get traction. Thanks for proving them wrong. 🐝❤️

honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb…
Huge thanks to @allspaw, whose blog post "an open letter to all monitoring/metrics/alerting companies" I left open in a tab for two full years. google.com/amp/s/www.kitc…
and huge thanks to our first customers at @nylas, @superhuman, @tapjoy and @intercom. It takes a special kind of crazy to roll the dice on a new tool and team; I will love you kittens forever. 📈🐝
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