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Today we wrote some code, told it to send a trace to Honeycomb, and it didn’t. No traces, no error message, why??? This happened to us on AWS Lambda, and it could happen other places too. These debugging techniques can be helpful anywhere you’re struggling with OpenTelemetry. Here I’ll demonstrate them in a tiny Node … Read moreWhy no traces? Traceflags 00 edition
Accountability is about performance and behavior. Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage Accountability for measurable outcomes is “not the most important kind.” It’s the easy kind. The kind [of accountability] that is more fundamental, important, and difficult is about behavior. Lencioni, The Advantage It’s fundamental because behavior is what we can legitimately ask someone to change. Business … Read moreAccountability for Effective Teams
Honeycomb has doubled in size since I joined less than 2 years ago. More people means we can do more things at the same time. Both “more people” and “more things at the same time” lead to increased overhead. There’s coordination overhead to get timings right on work that’s independent. Like, to release a feature … Read moreAlignment gets expensive. Don’t skimp on it.
For years, I’ve been wishing I had Honeycomb events for pageviews on my web site. But doing that in WordPress is hard, it probably involves PHP, and I don’t have time to dive into that world. Forget diving; I can dip my toe into it with the help of ChatGPT. With its help, I got … Read moreUsing ChatGPT in Anger (not real anger)
My objective is to troubleshoot 502 errors in my load balancer. The first step is to set up access logs. That says to create an S3 bucket, create a policy for it, and then configure the load balancer. I refuse to do this in the console; I’m using terraform to create resources and kubernetes to … Read moreSetting up ALB Access Logs in EKS using Terraform
sometimes when i wake up, there’s a dark tightness in my chest, like the right side of my ribcage is twisted. Everything is terrible: the world is full of wrong. Our society is in decay, and actively destroying the environment we depend on. My state government is ignoring these problems and persecuting trans people instead. … Read morewhen the world feels wrong
TL;DR – go create a new environment in Honeycomb, and get a new API Key. If you get this error from Honeycomb, it means that you’re sending data, and your API Key is working, but… Your API Key (in the x-honeycomb-team header) tells Honeycomb where to put your traces. It specifies a team and an … Read moreError: missing ‘x-honeycomb-dataset’ header
Have you ever looked at someone else’s Honeycomb query and thought “what’s up with ‘trace.parent_id does not exist’? Or wondered how Honeycomb’s home screen counts Total Requests? This is totally confusing. Here, I made a video about how to do it and why it works like that.
${BASH_SOURCE%/*} This is useful when you want to read a file that’s in the same directory as the current script, for instance. $BASH_SOURCE holds the current script, including a path. That could be a relative path or a full path. % says “strip off a glob from the end of the value, the smallest glob … Read morebash: get the directory this script is in
People can “learn to code” on so many websites, in little in-browser environments. Sites instruct on the basics of ‘for’ loops and ‘if’ statements. In advanced courses, learn algorithms and data structures. Writing toy programs is eminently teachable. Writing useful programs is something else. And writing them well is a mysterious art. Greg Wilson‘s new … Read moreBook Review: Software Design By Example