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14
Jul
Sampling is tracing's weakness

Sampling is tracing's weakness

Distributed tracing is AWESOME! I saw it's power more than 6 years ago, and I've been
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20
Apr
Learnings from my first magazine

Learnings from my first magazine

As my sabbatical was approaching, I was searching for ideas on what I could learn. I was toying with the
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10
Apr
Searching for the Great Good Place

Searching for the Great Good Place

I just finished reading The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. It was originally written in 1989, but it is
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28
Mar
Sabbatical kicks off and April plans

Sabbatical kicks off and April plans

I originally planned to take a sabbatical from May 1st to July 31st; however, I couldn’t really wait and
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26
Jan
SLOs are not just about error budgets

SLOs are not just about error budgets

I started my career at Grafana Labs, building and running our hosted Prometheus solution on top of Cortex (now Mimir)
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16
Jan
7 years: engineering to PM and back

7 years: engineering to PM and back

A few months back, I wrote a blog post on the role of PMs in developer tooling. That was me
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28
Dec
Building the Raspberry Pi Kernel for eBPF (Beyla)

Building the Raspberry Pi Kernel for eBPF (Beyla)

So I wanted to run Beyla on my Raspberry Pi 5 which is part of my home lab. But the
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23
Nov
Support your local bookstores!

Support your local bookstores!

I didn't read as many books this year, but I feel like I read a lot more diverse
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12
Aug
PMs in developer tooling

PMs in developer tooling

I've now been a PM for more than 18 months, and it's finally going well! I
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24
Jul
Prometheus 3.0 and beyond aka keeping it simple since 2012

Prometheus 3.0 and beyond aka keeping it simple since 2012

I first started using Prometheus in 2016, and it’s been one of the best things to happen to me.
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