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John Watson

Structure or Flexibility Was Never the Choice

I spent a long time thinking platform operations meant picking a side: a rigid framework that holds until it can't, or flexible duct tape that bends until it breaks. Today Swamp Club raised $7M in seed funding. I'd rather talk about what people built with it than the round itself.

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

Honeycomb Is Hiring a New VP of Engineering

Honeycomb is hiring a new VP of Engineering as Emily Nakashima moves into an operational role after nine years leading engineering. We're looking for a partner to SVP Product Graham Siener.

John Watson

91% Cheaper, 14.8% Faster Alert Triage with TypeSafe AI & Swamp

TypeSafe AI screens. Swamp routes. Claude gets the work worth paying for.

John Watson

Protect Your Org from Your Boss's Vibe-Coded Bullshit

My seven-year-old daughter used GPT Astra to create a 3D game this weekend. She loves it. Everyone can create software now; your platform's job is to contain the brutality within.

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

AI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True

The final part of Honeycomb's AI Norms & Values series: the principles the company holds true about AI as a tool, ownership of work, and rising standards; how it actually uses AI day to day; usage patterns for respecting each other's time; and where it stands on AI's ethical externalities like energy use, IP, bias, and...

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

AI Norms & Values, Part 2 of 3: AI for Honeycomb Engineering

Charity Majors shares a note from Emily Nakashima, SVP of Engineering, on why Honeycomb's engineering org is going all in on AI, the north star it's aiming for, and an honest FAQ about what that means day to day.

John Watson

6 Learnings from 12,000 Agentic Code Reviews

Mature organisations monitor CI/CD efficiency and PR bounce-back rates. In the agentic world, how can you measure the performance and efficiency of your software factory?

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at Honeycomb

It's been a year since Honeycomb issued its AI mandate. Charity reflects on what that produced, why AI isn't special (it just amplifies what's already there), and shares the first of three new documents on Honeycomb's AI norms and values: how we do business.

John Watson

The End of Vendor Lock-in

Four architectures in six weeks, under live production traffic, with no maintenance window. We didn't see any of the infrastructure requirements coming, and it didn't matter.

John Watson

The Keyboard on Floor 3

For six months, a sticky note on a London hotdesk read: “The S key is sticky, sorry - Mandeep.” What that note did to one keyboard explains exactly what agentic memory toxicity is.

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

Shipping Is Your Company's Heartbeat: A Letter from a CTO

In an open letter to engineering leaders everywhere, Fin CTO Darragh Curran explains that AI isn't a magic wand but rather an amplifier—of the good and the bad—of your engineering practices. And engineering rigor is more important than ever.

John Watson

Correct, Relevant, Concise. In That Order

Writing code was always the surface. The real work was the frameworks and processes underneath. Machines have the typing now; what's left is what always mattered: context, and the deterministic plumbing that makes it reliable.

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

The Second Edition of Observability Engineering Is Here

The second edition of Observability Engineering is available for download on our website.