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Charity Majors
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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. 📈🐝
(with very special mentions to @spang, who dared to jump first, and @jjosler, who was the only person on the internet searching for "high cardinality debugging tool" back in 2016)
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Charity Majors
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Wow, lots of interest in my shitty cron deploys. Ok, here's how they work (or how I wired them up three years ago anyway):

CI/CD does its thing on each commit. As a last step, it uploads version stamped artifacts to S3.
Every service runs in an ASG named after the service that runs there. Every 30 min or so from cron, a shitty bash script runs that checks s3 for a newer artifact for its service name.

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dude. check it out, one of the most thorough and compelling cases for observability that I've ever read, and it's by our new board member! CAN YOU TELL HE WAS AN ENGINEER 😍📈 scalevp.com/blog/honeycomb…
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"If a problem is really easy, you find it in a traditional monitoring tool in 30 seconds. If you don't find it in 30 seconds, you never will with a monitoring tool. Honeycomb fills that gap." 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
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Hey Seattlefolk! I'm flying up tonight and would love to see friends, meet new folks, and connect my sister with some local engineering pals. We will be hanging out at McMenamins Six Arms, around 4 pm tomorrow. Do come out and join us. ☺️🌈 🍸
She just started work as a mechanical engineer, but taking coding boot camps and I think she is destined for software. I want her to meet people.

She likes mountains and hiking and -- this is starting to sound like a personal ad, and yes she is single (she is going to kill me)
Esp if you are a recent grad, or a woman in engineering, come hang out and meet my sis and drink cocktails with us. Make friends, raid my sticker box.

Saturday afternoon at McMenamins. DM if you're coming so I can let you know if plans change. See y'all there. 🌈
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