Lex Neva

Sep 18, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Nick Travaglini |Brian Chang |Lex Neva

Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on one place: pre-prod. Short for “pre-production,” this is slang for an environment where software code operates in a prototype phase of its development lifecycle. Common sense would have one believe that this is a safe space, a workbench of sorts, where problems can be found and remediated.

Jul 23, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Lex Neva

In my last blog post, I explained why we decided to destroy one third of our infrastructure in production just to see what would happen. This is part two, where I go over the big day. How did our chaos engineering experiment go? Find out below!For our big test in production, we would use AWS’s Fault Injection Service (FIS) to simulate the failure, just as we had done in Dogfood and Kibble.

Jul 16, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Lex Neva

We recently took a daring step to test and improve the reliability of the Honeycomb service: we abruptly destroyed one third of the infrastructure in our production environment using AWS’s Fault Injection Service. You might be wondering why the heck we did something so drastic. In this post, we’ll go over why we did it and how we made sure that it wouldn’t impact our service.