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Alyson van Hardenberg

Director, Engineering

Alyson is an Engineering Director at Honeycomb, where she helps build inclusive, collaborative, high-impact teams. With a background in full-stack development, she's comfortable in both modern and legacy codebases and is happy to jump in where needed—whether tackling technical challenges or creating space for her teams to thrive.

February 15, 2023

My Time As An Employee Board Member (The Weirdest Skip-Level)

In January 2022, Honeycomb kicked off a one year experiment to have an employee sit as a voting board member on the board of directors. I became that board member in July 2022. As the experiment comes to a close, I want to share some of my reflections.

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January 22, 2020

Using Honeycomb to remember to delete a feature flag

Feature flags are great and serve us in so many ways. However, we do not love long-lived feature flags. They lead to more complicated code, and when we inevitably default them to be true…

OpenTelemetry vs OpenTracing | Understanding OpenCensus and Related Terms

There’s been a fair bit of buzz lately about OpenTelemetry, which is the next major version of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. The leadership of those two projects have come together to create OpenTelemetry,…

Collaboration with OpenCensus: A new way to get traces into Honeycomb

Okay, the cat was out of the bag when the PR merged — Regardless, we’re happy to announce the existence of the Honeycomb Exporter for OpenCensus! OpenCensus, a Google-lead open source project, is a…

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