BRIEF DELIGHTS

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The "three pillars" are a lie that keep good engineers trapped inside a mental model from the 1980s, paying outrageous sums of money for tooling that can't keep up with the complexity of modern systems.

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Writing the second edition of "Observability Engineering" and I'm a bit out of my depth. Send me your stories?

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I just watched a panel where tech execs nodded along as someone described the original definition of observability as an "unsolved problem" they had to build custom tooling for. My head exploded.

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No, I haven't finished writing the book yet. Yes, I have more questions. Please? 🙏🌈✨

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I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product. Most of them I didn’t care about, but I was mad about losing one of them: a retrospective of the grueling, murderous two-year rewrite of our entire API from Ruby on Rails to Golang..

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The struggle is what brings your ideals to life, and other thoughts on what turns a rebellious little shit into a committed institutionalist.