OpenTelemetry is now the IBM of instrumentation: no one gets fired for suggesting it. It is now "of course we're going to instrument with OpenTelemetry. Is now the right time?" Martin Thwaites #KCDC

There are no pillars of observability. There are _signals_ like tracing, metrics, and logs. The reason they’re not pillars is: you don’t always need all three. Martin Thwaites #KCDC #OpenTelemetry

well, Asana definitely knows its iPad client is useless. Instead of showing my project calendar usefully, it displays “Samle Project” (they mean Sample) with a task “Revamp iPad views” :o

hey Logseq 🪵 I love your app so much! It shows me just what I need to see at the time, and not anything else. How do I give you money?

We're on an accessibility kick at @Honeycomb lately. For instance, since yesterday, you can sort query output by column header using only the keyboard.

chrome trim on a vehicle interior is a MISTAKE

Kubernetes is like, why use Heroku when you can run your own Heroku?? No, really, I want IaaS for a reason I don't want to run it I hate my cluster

In a few hours, Zach McCoy @[email protected] and I are presenting about the sea change in observability that supports complexity in software, free online: info.honeycomb.io/mastering-obse…

Me: Right now my Kubernetes cluster is suffering from a lot of ejected pods. Teen: You sound like you're playing an alien colonization game.

Free live workshops on OpenTelemetry and observability: it's "Observability Day" by honeycomb.io - coming up in Melbourne on 6 August. (plus NY, London, SF later) go.hny.co/3yks7nE

A month ago, I bought a $100 Shell gift card from RPG Card Services, and it didn't arrive 😭 Today they emailed me: it came back undeliverable! Good customer service, thank you, will purchase from you again!

This Fairmont Hotel in Austin asks me for my satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10 Right after it charges me $14/day to connect to the internet. 1/10, you are terrible

In the kitchen, the stuff I left on the counter is fine, I know why it's there. Everything my family leaves on the counter is mess. In our own software, we don't trip over the rough edges, we can fix those later. For everyone else, our software is rough.

Saying "we test in production" is the opposite of "YOLO!" It's admitting the profound complexity, unpredictability and dynamicism of our users and production systems, and acknowledging that the only practical approach is one rooted in instrumentation, flexibility, and humility.

New episode from Jessica Joy Kerr !!!

If you're a frontend (web) developer, and would like to try DevRel, there's no better place than honeycomb.io ! I'm hiring: jobs.lever.co/honeycomb/6c49…

This is my slide in PDF... and this is my slide after Adobe converts it to PPT