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Wide Events Didn't Make My RCA Cheaper (They Made It Right)
Posted on: (17 min read)I built an eval harness to prove wide events would make agentic root-cause analysis dramatically cheaper than three pillars. An adversarial audit killed the cost story. What replaced it mattered a lot more.
Dialling In Espresso, and Sending the Whole House to ClickHouse
Posted on: (15 min read)A grind-and-dose UX on the espresso machine, a custom OpenTelemetry Collector that funnels the whole house into ClickHouse, finer-grained shot exports, and a LibreChat agent that reads the data and roasts my coffee.
I Put OpenTelemetry in My Espresso Machine (and You Can Too)
Posted on: (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: (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: (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: (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.
Systems Observability - What To Consider Before Writing Your First Line of Code
Posted on: (13 min read)Before even beginning to set things up, we should understand what makes good monitoring, logging, and alerting.
DevOps - What to Give a 💩 About
Posted on: (3 min read)What makes DevOps successful?
My Sunday Project — Static S3 Hosting
Posted on: (3 min read)Make the good way of serving your front-end the easy way."
There and Back Again
Posted on: (5 min read)How my move out of a product team to an infrastructure team, and back again changed my view on DevOps and end-to-end ownership of products.
DevOps & Enterprise — Reference List
Posted on: (2 min read)Reference list for the blog.
DevOps & Enterprise — Part Deux
Posted on: (19 min read)Determining the teams you need to work with, understanding your constraints, and building something to try and solve the operational issues of an organisation.
DevOps & Enterprise — Introducing Cultural Change to Big Organisations
Posted on: (11 min read)How introducing DevOps and SRE within the constraints of your organisation can help you win battles in your fight for better IT Operations.