August 2018 Summaries

Honeycomb, a leader in observability solutions for software engineering teams, has announced the appointment of Christina Noren, a seasoned enterprise software executive with extensive product and market expertise, to its board of directors as the company enters a new growth phase. Noren's experience includes significant roles at companies like Splunk, Zuora, Interana, and CloudBees, where she has been instrumental in scaling products and businesses. Honeycomb has recently augmented its core observability product with tracing capabilities and launched a public sandbox, leading to accelerated business growth. Charity Majors, Honeycomb's CEO and co-founder, emphasized the importance of Noren's expertise in scaling the company's product and business, aiming to make observability accessible to every engineer. Noren expressed excitement about joining Honeycomb, highlighting its leadership in the observability movement and the dynamic vision of its founding team in the DevOps space. Honeycomb.io provides high-cardinality, event-oriented, and trace-aware tools, enabling engineering teams to understand and debug systems in production, making modern observability approaches widely available to the market.

Software systems are inherently opaque, requiring the generation of data to inform humans about their operational status. Observable systems address this need by enabling humans to determine if they are functioning correctly, diagnose issues, and understand their scope and impact. These systems not only provide the necessary data for comprehension but also ensure that it is accessible, explorable, and presented in a user-friendly manner for rapid analysis.