Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth.

Modern digital businesses adopt AIOps tools to enable continuous insights across an IT stack. These insights tell the full story of what’s happening behind systems, allowing IT teams to achieve the operational efficiencies and high availability that lead to customer satisfaction. Old siloed monitoring disciplines provide data specific to performance of the digital experience, IT infrastructure, application or network.

Compared to the previous generation, today’s generation of startups are increasingly cloud-centric. The previous generation of dotcoms had to suffer the economics and complexities of deploying, managing, and scaling their own servers, networks, and data centers. In contrast, today’s generation grew up in the just-in-time, pay-for-what-you-need, and scale-up-on-demand world that is cloud native.