Alayshia Knighten
Manager, Onboarding Engineering @Honeycomb
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Alayshia is an Onboarding Engineering manager at Honeycomb who specializes in Observability and Production Excellence. She is also a modern-day hippie that simply enjoys getting "ish" done while "buzzing" around with customers, transforming their DevOps world.
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Abstract
Progressive Delivery with Observability
Build, test, and deploy can be a bloody nightmare. So we try in non-production environments and hold our breath, hoping that everything is okay when we push our deployments to production. When it's not okay, we waste time mimicking a fake production environment. What if I told you we had a way to monitor our production systems based on the data we receive from them?**cough** Observability *cough*
Let's ask questions about our production systems, allow the data to report back, and answer the question, "is it safe to continue?" Using data-driven decisions in our CI/CD workflows lets us breathe easy "knowing" what's in front of us.