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Case Study: 40x faster: how Depot powers modern software builds with Honeycomb

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Key facts · TL;DR

Company

Depot

Industry

Developer Tools

Challenge

Noisy, manual way to detect broken builds

Headline result

Time to root cause cut from an hour to seconds

Key results

40x

Faster builds delivered

to Depot customers

10x

Faster time to root cause

Hours → seconds

Issue triage

with BubbleUp

The challenge

Depot, a developer-first build-acceleration platform, had a disorganized and noisy way to know when things were broken. Diagnosing an issue required roughly an hour of manual log correlation before engineers could find the cause.

The solution

Depot instrumented its platform with Honeycomb, using BubbleUp to triage issues and the SLO concept to monitor build reliability across customer workloads.

“Honeycomb is the best tool I have seen for traces, and the best at the SLO concept.”
JG
Jacob Gillespie
CTO and Co-Founder, Depot

The results, in context

Depot delivers builds up to 40x faster to its customers and cut time to root cause by 10x, moving investigations from hours to seconds with BubbleUp triage.

Products used

Honeycomb BubbleUpHoneycomb SLOsHoneycomb Distributed Tracing