Josh Parsons

Josh Parsons

Enabling and empowering engineering teams to do their best work

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  • New blog: Transforming How We Run Kafka at Honeycomb

    July 15, 2026
    career, engineering

    I have a new blog post out on honeycomb.io, diving into the insights and lessons of completing a major, multi-quarter Kafka migration project at Honeycomb. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/transforming-how-we-run-kafka-honeycomb There are some things that I talk about in the post that I’d like to speak to more of here. I want to give some shout-outs, and I’d like…

  • From Honeycomb Customer to Bee: An Observability Champion’s Journey

    April 7, 2026
    career, engineering, observability

    I wrote a blog post for Honeycomb and shared a little bit about my journey from internal observability champion, to Honeycomb customer, to Honeycomb employee (aka Bee). In addition to the specifics of my journey and the strategies I used to advocate for improving observability, what I hope you take away is how eminently humanizing…

  • The roads of the second half of my career: A practice of community

    July 22, 2025
    career, community, engineering

    Building the things of enduring value

  • Embodying psychologically safe engineering culture

    September 22, 2024
    engineering

    Inspired by a thread by Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder at Honeycomb, I wrote a little bit about what I think about when I approach difficult conversations in work contexts and trying to embody psychologically safe team spaces.

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