• Querying & Ingest outage: Recent response team external communication log from Honeycomb. The transparency is great and frequency of updates good too while they were working the problem and weren’t sure what was happening.
  • Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith: Gc performance tuning to improve tail latency in the system. I’ve been looking at java gc recently so this was near and dear to my heart. Java gc concepts are similar - young / old gen, mark and sweep, stop the world, major / minor collections. Good insights here.