Jordan's Blog
Hi 👋 I'm Jordan! I sit somewhere between sofware development and SRE. I've been writing about various topics, but my current interests are SRE, Observability, and systems. May or may not use this as a place to dump my recipes alongside my thoughts.
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I Put OpenTelemetry in My Espresso Machine (and You Can Too)
Posted on:June 14, 2026 at 03:00 PM (13 min read)How I put OpenTelemetry on an ESP32-powered espresso machine. Metrics, traces, and exemplars on a microcontroller, and the embedded gotchas along the way.
TIL Leadership Fundamentals
Posted on:February 25, 2020 at 06:30 PM (17 min read)When jumping into the deep end of leading the team that I helped to build, I struggled to communicate a good vision to my team. This post covers a few thing leading up to vision like motivation, and what good leadership looks like - to me anyway.
Recent Posts
I Put OpenTelemetry in My Espresso Machine (and You Can Too)
Posted on:June 14, 2026 at 03:00 PM (13 min read)How I put OpenTelemetry on an ESP32-powered espresso machine. Metrics, traces, and exemplars on a microcontroller, and the embedded gotchas along the way.
TIL Leadership Fundamentals
Posted on:February 25, 2020 at 06:30 PM (17 min read)When jumping into the deep end of leading the team that I helped to build, I struggled to communicate a good vision to my team. This post covers a few thing leading up to vision like motivation, and what good leadership looks like - to me anyway.
On the Importance of Tooling
Posted on:November 4, 2019 at 11:50 AM (8 min read)Why is writing internal tooling for developers so important? How do businesses benefit from the upfront investment in robust tooling?
Systems Observability - Determining SLIs, SLOs, and Introducing Error Budgets
Posted on:May 21, 2019 at 07:30 PM (8 min read)Monitoring isn't just a 'finger in the air' way of determining the health of our applications. It also needs to be an actionable indicator of the reliability of our systems.