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Every article tagged Observability across the Atmosphere.
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Stacked log lines considered harmful
Why logging at every layer of a service produces noise, and how to log only at the handler level while propagating context from below.GoDistributed Systems
How to read and write application logs
Writing logs is important: they are the story of how your application is doing what it does.CodeObservability
Wide Events, Personal Software, and You.
I recently built a fun little project called 777-BSKY. It looks at Bluesky trending topics, does some math, figures out what's most popular and slaps some TTS on it. You can call a phone number and have the output read back to you, kinda like Moviefone except all of the movies are talking about the twilight of the American experiment.observabilitysoftware
Introducing locol
The best projects to work on are the ones that scratch a few different itches at once. I've wanted to write a native macOS application for years now, but I've always found building GUIs to be tedious and -- frankly -- hard to wrap my head around. I've also wanted a better way to manage a local OpenTelemetry Collector on my Mac for quite a while as well. Thanks to the magic of artificial intelligence and a little bit of gumption, I've accomplished both of these goals. Introducing locol.aiobservability
Re-Redefining Observability
This post is a response/companion to Hazel Weakly's excellent 'Redefining Observability'. You should probably read it first, and perhaps Fred Hebert's commentary on it, 'A Commentary on Defining Observability'. I don't necessarily plan on re-treading a lot of the ground that both of them do, and instead, want to focus on breaking down some of the definitions and missing pieces that both present.observability
Telemetry Ergonomics
I used to joke that there were maybe fifty people on the planet that really cared about 'observability' at a philosophical level, and I still maintain that I'm mostly correct. Maybe you're one of them, but odds are, you aren't. This disconnect becomes very obvious when I look at the way that people prefer to use observability tools, and more specifically, the way that those tools build workflows on top of telemetry collection. In this post, I'm going to look at a few popular examples of this in the front-end space to draw some comparisons between the state of the art in OpenTelemetry vs. its incumbents.observability
Data Bores
Sampling is a method to reduce the volume of data processed and stored by observability tools. There’s a variety of methods and algorithms that can be employed to do this, and most observability practices will wind up using a blend of them, but this blog isn’t necessarily about how to implement any individual technique. No, what I’m interested in discussing is the why of sampling, the outcomes that we’re looking for when we implement it, and some of the novel work that I’m seeing around the subject.observability
Observability Cannot Fail, It Can Only Be Failed
Being between jobs is a great time to step back, do some self-critique, and engage in light home improvement for fun and or profit. It’s this last pursuit that’s convinced me that if this whole computer thing doesn’t work out, I’m screwed — I don’t have the spirit of a tradesperson in my body. This revelation was prompted by my journey to install laminate flooring in my office, which has until now simply had a bare concrete floor. Originally, I had my heart set on some ‘Luxury Vinyl Planks’ (or LVP), which was not only recommended to me by industrious flooring salespeople, but was available in a variety of delightful colors and patterns.observability
Observability and the Decentralized Web
It's probably still too early to write the obituary for centralized social media and 'Web 2.0' — but if you squint, you can see it on the horizon. Ongoing regulatory pressures and the slow burn of Twitter at the hands of Elon Musk aside, there's an increasing body of evidence that courts and governments will take a more active hand in the moderation and control of user-generated content. This piece on the draft deal between TikTok and the US Government to avoid a ban of the former is, I fear, broadly indicative of what the future holds for social platforms.atprotoobservability
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