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@mipsytipsy

cofounder/CTO , co-wrote Database Reliability Engineering, loves whiskey, rainbows, and Friday deploys. I test in production and so do you. 🌈

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    13 Sep 2020

    Updated definition: 📉 Monitoring is for running and understanding other people's code (aka "your infrastructure") 📈 Observability is for running and understanding *your* code -- the code you write, change and ship every day; the code that solves your core business problems.

    Monitoring is for operating software/systems Instrumentation is for writing software Observability is for understanding systems
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  2. Jun 29

    this is happening! in about 8 minutes! bring your questions about observability for and joe and me, we will answer them ALL. -> ->

    Webinar happening in an hour– Joe Thackery of , Honeycomb's , & Redmonk's walk through the findings of our 2021 Observability Maturity Community Research report and discuss the rise in observability. Register now:
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  3. Jun 23

    we are about to start! come join us! <3

    Hey ya'll, dont forget that and I are going to be chatting with tomorrow for the fireside chat. Talking observability, why it matters, amongst other topics:
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  4. Jun 19

    So here I am, reading this (pithy, timely, thought provoking) little thread on how good marketing is done, and having the following thoughts. - what have I done that this is my interesting life now, and can I please have back my unbroken feed of hbo test email jokes? 🤩

    At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas. Here’s what we actually learned, plus what I now do instead. 👇🏼
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  5. Jun 17

    don't forget to read the blog, he is one of the best writers and communicators in the world on this topic -- the examples, the graphs, the stories .. *blows air kisses* perfection! the ideal pieces for forwarding to those o11yskeptics in your life. 😆

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  6. Jun 17

    recently i saw that had become a honeycomb user, and the world made 5% more sense to me. 😆 i still remember seeing him give a talk on o11y back in ~2017 and going "holy shit, someone ELSE is talking about high cardinality, dimensionality, wide events? TWO of us!"

    New post: real-life production example of bubbling up a customer-specific problem with high-cardinality observability on . (Another example of aggregates hiding what's really happening to users)
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  7. Jun 17

    don't forget to read his post, too. it's rich with tasty little bits about software, engineering culture, and careers, but my favorite part is where he talks about developers and production. dude's gonna fit *right* in here. 😍

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  8. Jun 17

    we don't typically sit around thinking "optimistically, i might get to feel a little torn up and heartbroken when i leave this place five years from now" 🤔 but these bittersweet feels are the best possible outcome when it comes to... nearly anything worth doing in life.

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  9. Jun 17

    my interview with stands out for just how long he spent telling rollicking stories about how AMAZING his coworkers were and how much he LOVED his time at M$. you can treasure your time somewhere _and also_ know in your heart of hearts when it's time to graduate. 🌷☺️

    After nearly 6 years at Microsoft (my first job out of college!) I'm doing something different. I'm happy to say I'll be joining Honeycomb in about 2 weeks!
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    Jun 17

    Standing offer: if you are non-men/URM in tech and are negotiating salary for your next offer, I'm happy to share my entire comp history with you in DMs. Information is power.

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  11. Jun 17

    I mean. I'm *just* saying.

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    Jun 17

    It's all fine and dandy naming parts of your infrastructure after cute dogs, but eventually, you find yourself searching a wiki for reminders of how to "kill retrievers" and it feels so, so wrong.

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  13. Jun 17

    Sorry, I know I'm late to the party, but that doesn't impact my individual right to throw things. 🥂

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  14. Jun 17

    Anyway, this is the kind of score-settling wisdom and depth as one has come to expect from ye aun: 🥃🥃🥃 TENURED PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER BREAKING, 🥃🥃🥃

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  15. Jun 17

    I still struggle to click into work-mind when the sun is up or there's weekday buzz. I have rituals to kickstart the headspace, and they work fine. But Friday night after 8? I have to be extremely intentional to evade slipping happily away into twenty hours of hyperfocus.

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  16. Jun 17

    It's so important to provide this kind of balanced perspective; thank you. Think of the CHILDREN!!! -- er one subset of them, whose only reliable source of intrinsic motivation comes from zestfully flinging themselves into the polar opposite of whatever they are being told to do.

    (it's also OK to work weekends if you like to do that. you don't need to feel guilty about it. just don't do it because some boss 'advised' you to)
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    Jun 16

    my experience of following (we're working on uograding our dependencies to plug it in and /grabbyhands)

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    Jun 16
    Replying to and

    There was no Chef without nathan haneysmith, barry steinglass, jesse robbins, chris brown, and so many other (hundreds!) of people. That the mythology wants it to be one human, static for all time and good from the jump (I was not!) - drives me nutso.

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  19. Jun 16

    anyone? he means like "times waiting for code review" or "hi pri tasks sitting unassigned", not build times. 🤔

    has anyone used o11y tools like to instrument the dev process (jira, github, etc.) and extract insights like you could get from GitPrime/Jellyfish/Velocity/etc? it keeps getting stuck in my head
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    Jun 16
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    this but "founder"

    everyone says becoming a CEO is the hardest thing but all you really have to do is ask a guy in delaware and then a few days later he replies "yeah, sure"
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    Jun 16

    These two are :chefskiss: thank you

    Two stickers on a laptop. 1) Graph everything? Fuck you. 2) set fire to your systems and they will burn.
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