Honeycomb has finally (begrudgingly) joined the Kubernetes brigade, and we have now migrated our services to k8s. Why? That’s a GREAT question.

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors, Engineering Manager Ian Smith, and SRE Fred Hebert host a casual fireside chat to answer this.

They discuss the technical inflection points that helped us decide it was time to migrate, as well as the non-technical reasons (spoiler alert: it’s not because it’s the trendy thing to do right now.)

Some key takeaways:

• Migrations are hard—why did we do this one?
• General migration strategies
• How are we monitoring our own Kubernetes stack

This session is best for:

• Architects looking for real understanding of their applications
• Developers who want visibility into the impact of their application’s behavior
• Anyone who’s ever felt that monitoring was insufficient