spimmy

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by spimmy 1y ago
ha! ok, i never thought of it quite like that.
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by spimmy 1y ago
just made this exact same point myself, lower in this thread. (author here)
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by spimmy 1y ago
yes! love this. and many great engineers will go back to being "good engineers" as they pick up new skills. rinse and repeat++
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by spimmy 1y ago
i think it has to start with having engineering managers and directors who are deeply technical themselves. the idea that you can split up this work into "managers do the people stuff" and "engineers do the technical stuff&qu
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by spimmy 1y ago
well obviously there's a ton of variance here. but in the type of engineering i'm most familiar with, any sizable amount of production services or surface layer being owned by a single person is a bad thing. individuals can get si
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by spimmy 1y ago
oh wow i missed that, thank you!
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by spimmy 1y ago
many fair points here <3
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by spimmy 1y ago
idk, avoiding landmines seems like pretty significant business impact
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by spimmy 1y ago
because there is, by definition, an extremely limited supply of the "best engineers in the world". if you can afford to pay top-10% salaries, and attract and retain top-10% engineers, more power to you. maybe not literally "a
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by spimmy 1y ago
i'm struggling to see how what you are saying you value is any different from what i am saying i value (author here).
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by spimmy 1y ago
Word.
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by spimmy 1y ago
insightful; cosign. (i wrote the piece)
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by spimmy 1y ago
This is a good insight, but they already have a therapist. :) (I am the author)
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by spimmy 2y ago
Excited to see this!! Very much on board with this sort of approach to the future -- wide, structured logs, a balance between machines doing the heavy lifting + humans adding intent to the signal. Also VERY excited to see honeycomb custome
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by spimmy 2y ago
jesus christ ok
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by spimmy 2y ago
it's weird that you think it's a sales pitch, when i ended it by pleading for other people to share writeups of their similar solutions. i know they exist, and i know people who are desperate to use them. if it came across as a sa
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by spimmy 2y ago
HUGE +1 to mixing systems observability with product data. this is an oft-missed aspect of observability 2.0 that is increasingly critical. all of the interesting questions in software are some combination and conjunction of systems, app, a
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by spimmy 2y ago
they've had nice things in BI land for YEARS. it's very cobbler's children have no shoes that we're still over here in software land doling out little drips of cardinality, guessing, eyeballing and jumping to conclusions
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by spimmy 2y ago
i would love to hear how you are doing all the 2.0 stuff i described on datadog. you can't zoom in, zoom out, identify outliers and correlations.. the data doesn't exist! at best, you can predefine a few connective points between
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by spimmy 2y ago
my eyes popped at the "most expensive solution i've seen so far". compared to what?!? we don't like to promise "it's always cheaper", but .. it's always cheaper, lol. with datadog, you have to arm wre
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by spimmy 2y ago
i just think that metrics are the right tool for the job when the job is summarizing vast quantities of data. not when the job is understanding complex systems. in order to do that, you need a ton of context and cardinality, etc. i know so
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by spimmy 2y ago
i'm not dismissing otel at all! under the hood, actually, everything is an event in otel ;)
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by spimmy 2y ago
hey, thanks! i would love to hear your feedback on how i could have made this simpler and easier to understand, if you have any. :)
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Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership, or political discussions at work(charity.wtf)
3 points by spimmy 2y ago|1 comments
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by spimmy 2y ago
What's wrong with banning politics at work?
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by spimmy 3y ago
news to me too, and it's my company. :) i have no idea how these rumors get started.
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by spimmy 7y ago
^ CTO now, but thanks :D
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by spimmy 9y ago
Oh yeah, I wrote the blog post. And it had nothing to do with our launch. It was supposed to be funny , not a comprehensively detailed argument. If you haven't been woken up by any or all of these things, I wouldn't expect you
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by spimmy 9y ago
It's modeled after the way Facebook does their own internal analytics, with Scuba. Go ask them how they like it.
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by spimmy 9y ago
One company was paying $35k/ month in just ec2 hardware costs to run an ELK cluster, and we were able to slash that substantially, while still making money. Not to mention the savings in core engineering time. Just goes to show you,

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