Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Parallelizing Queries with Rails 7's `load_async`

As you're likely well aware, Rails 7 was released last month bringing a number of new features with it. One of the features we're most excited about is load_async. This features allows for multiple Active Record queries to be executed in parallel which can be a great tool for speeding up slow requests. Since Rails introduces an entirely new infrastructure for load_async, Skylight's existing integration wasn't capturing all of these queries.

Collective Cybersecurity: A Shared Responsibility Model

The state of cybersecurity today is, in a word, catastrophic. Breaches have become endemic. Not only do they continue at dizzying rates, but they are actually increasing in frequency by the month. Why are things so bad? And why do businesses seem so helpless to make them better? Those are complicated questions without simple answers, of course – but I believe that a major part of the answer has to do with the fact that, at most organizations, security remains the domain of elite security teams.

Share Progress and Celebrate Wins With Demo Days

In my last blog post, I talked about the cadence of product planning and delivery at Honeycomb. Tucked away in there was a mention of “demo day”—and I’m back to tell you all about that because it’s a pretty big deal around here, and I want to encourage you to give it a try as a way to see progress on new feature development and get folks excited about what’s on the horizon.

Shipa Now in the Civo Marketplace

Shipa is now for the first time in the Civo Marketplace. If you are unfamiliar with Civo, Civo is a Kubernetes-based cloud provider allowing for the rapid creation of Kubernetes clusters. The engineering efficiency and developer experience that Shipa brings can supercharge your Kubernetes experience on Civo. Now you can spin up a Shipa Control Plane e.g Shipa Self-Managed with a click of a button on Civo Cloud.

PromQL cheat sheet

PromQL is the dedicated query language for the metrics and monitoring Stack known as Prometheus. PromQL is well know for having a steep learning curve. Because of this we've created a helpful cheat sheet as a reference to help you with understanding the most common PromQL queries. Please feel free to save the sheet below and share it with any team members that you think would appreciate learning some of the most important queries of PromQL.

What Happens When Digital Transformation Comes to a Complete Standstill?

When an SCCM update failed, this organization found a creative workaround to install MS Teams on 1,200 devices in 48 hours. While every employee is more reliant on their digital experience in remote and hybrid workplaces, the future of work has brought about an increasing number of communication and support challenges for EUC teams. This gap is only exacerbated by the growing pressure on IT teams to deliver unmatched digital employee experience in the ongoing effort to retain talent.