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The end of Airplane.dev(yolken.net)
470 points by bhyolken 3y ago|149 comments
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by bhyolken 3y ago
Author here. This decision was more about ease of implementation than anything else. Our internal application logs were already being scooped up by GCP because we run our services in GKE, and we already had a GCP->Datadog log syncer [1]
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by bhyolken 3y ago
Yeah, metrics and logs, plus a few other things that depend on these (alerts, SLOs, metric-based dashboards, etc.).
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by bhyolken 3y ago
Sure, happy to provide more specifics! Our main issue was the lack of a synchronous gauge. The officially supported asynchronous API of registering a callback function to report a gauge metric is very different from how we were doing things
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by bhyolken 3y ago
Right now, there isn't much duplication of what we're sending to each vendor, so I don't think we'd save a ton by consolidating, at least based on list prices. We could maybe negotiate better prices based on higher volum
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by bhyolken 3y ago
Thanks! For logs, we actually use github.com/segmentio/events and just implemented a handler for that library that batches logs and periodically flushes them out to our collector using the underlying protocol buffer interface. We
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by bhyolken 3y ago
Author here, thanks for the question! The current split developed from the personal preferences of the engineers who initially set up our observability systems, based on what they had used (and liked) at previous jobs. We're definitely
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Goodbye, San Francisco(yolken.net)
89 points by bhyolken 3y ago|187 comments
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by bhyolken 3y ago
I lived on that block for close to 10 years and can confirm that the safety situation around there significantly degraded over the last 1-2 years. Gangs of drug dealers moved in and took over key sidewalk areas (particularly 7th and 8th str
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by bhyolken 6y ago
Author here. Just a few clarifications: 1. I have a ton of respect for people who do robotics work. I was trying to be a little humorous/cheeky in my descriptions here. Apologies if it comes across as flippant, that was not what I inte
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by bhyolken 6y ago
Author here, thanks for the comment. topicctl is really motivated by a desire to support rigorous, git-based topic management. The read-only views (tailing, repl, etc.) are secondary to that and are useful for our command-line-based workflo
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by bhyolken 6y ago
Not yet! But would be happy to look into those and/or get help adding them.
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Golines: A Golang formatter that fixes long lines(github.com)
1 points by bhyolken 7y ago|0 comments