Ben Hartshorne

Principal engineer at @honeycombio, all around enthusiast. he/him

[Honeycomb.io System Status Updates @honeycombio]

1/ Tired of constant back-and-forth between dev & platform engineering teams? Welcome to the next level of Kubernetes-aware observability!

HNY for K8s is an all-in-1️⃣ solution to the disjointed world of application and infrastructure monitoring! 🐝✨ https://t.co/vK9U6i6G7h

[Honeycomb.io System Status Updates @honeycombio]

HNY speaking session coming up…but first, a selfie! 😂

@maplebed here is stepping in for our originally scheduled #QConSF speaker, Jess Mink. Catch him at 5:05 PM PT in Ballroom A for "How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap"! https://t.co/BrKwBEAUvf

[Honeycomb.io System Status Updates @honeycombio]

✅ @maplebed filled a room and gave an incredible talk.
✅ Nailed our booth demos.
✅ Spread the word: Observability is 🔥.

Thanks for a brilliant conference, #QConSF! 🙏

👋 Keep in touch! Safe Travels! ✈️ Schedule a call with our team to learn more: https://t.co/hFAzAuPJ9N

[Pierre Tessier @PuckPuck]

Yup... that's an ⬆️ up round for a tech startup. ♥️ working for this place.

[Christine Yen @cyen]

today i'm excited to announce our latest round, a $50m series d, led by @HeadlineVC with participation from existing investors @ScaleVP, @insightpartners, among others: https://t.co/29YXD4rCAj

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

The last 7 years at @honeycombio have been awesome and it’s exciting that we continue to thrive; we’ve raised $50M in series D funding! It’s amazing to be visibly changing this corner of the industry in which I’ve spent most of my career. Onward! https://t.co/jweb6v7mSV

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

@jfmclaughlin92 Picked up another on my ride home today.

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

@jfmclaughlin92 One of my favorites

[Megan Gleason @fishmegs]

Two years ago we talked about whether to add a Service Map to @honeycombio. My eye rolling comment at the time was “all sizzle, no steak.” Our team has cooked up a goddamned filet mignon. 🥩✨

[Berkeleyside @berkeleyside]

Kanen Coffee’s espresso machine repair is a spiritual practice—and a viral hit https://t.co/ALyydAPtxr

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

No particular reason I'm retweeting this, really ... umm.... (Thankfully the ancient power strip I was using just valiantly gave its life with far less 💥 in the face of a power surge and everything's fine. Buying new ones today.)

[Evan Phoenix @evanphx]

This is a PSA: audit and replace old surge protectors. Don’t be like Evan and use a 20 year old one.

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

It's so tempting to use the easily available metric to judge a thing. @mononcqc gets into why counting alerts doesn't let you judge oncall health, but maybe is still a useful signal to track to augment analysis. https://t.co/ei9AiYb099

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

A preternatural engineering team is one that can neutralize the supernatural abilities of computers and the internet. Also called "bit-breakers", "net-detanglers", or "exorcists". https://t.co/1eSQj283VJ

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

I want to point out that there's always an element of "conferenceware." The part that @lizthegrey isn't saying is that @honeycombio's engineering team is preternaturally good at their jobs. They're significantly ahead of the curve.

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

@Twitter Could you use the local time zone for login warnings? My network packets are indeed coming from LA; Pacific time (PDT) would be a better choice. (This was a legit warning, it was a new device on a new IP, but it was actually me.) Thanks!

[The New Stack @thenewstack]

Exploring AWS Costs Beyond the Service Level https://t.co/ruWLN68U6t from @honeycombio by @maplebed

[Christine Yen @cyen]

✨ @peculiaire dropping some truth bombs — what she wishes she’d known when starting out — at #monitorama

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

I watch our AWS bill on a regular basis to ensure we keep things in check. I use the Cost Explorer for much of this, but I use @honeycombio to understand what's behind our Lambda bill. I wrote up a post on it to share how! https://t.co/di1qiihro7

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

@MinkJess @honeycombio Woooooo!!! I am very excited.

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

I can’t even remember how many folks thought we were silly for entering “the crowded monitoring space”. We can say “no no, it’s different” till we’re blue in the face without visible effect, but now 7 years later the whole industry has recognized the shift. This is amazing.

[Honeycomb.io System Status Updates @honeycombio]

Honeycomb ruffled the first of many feathers nearly 7 years ago when we coined the term “observability” in talking about production code, shares @cyen. Today we get to celebrate being a Leader in the @Gartner_inc #MagicQuadrant for #APM & #Observability! https://t.co/oNx5IUrho0

[Ben Hartshorne @maplebed]

Any demo that comes along with a “and this is how we measured the effect” is a winning demo in my book. ✨

[Jack Ryan @jmfryan]

At @intercom we have engineering demos every Friday, where people can show the cool things they have been working on. This week 100% of the demos included @honeycombio