Paige Cruz
@paigerduty.com
🔮 future alpaca shepherdess
➡️ currently dev advocate at Chronosphere + CNCF Ambassador
⚙️ former SRE
blog: https://www.paigerduty.com/
podcast: https://offcall.simplecast.com/
➡️ currently dev advocate at Chronosphere + CNCF Ambassador
⚙️ former SRE
blog: https://www.paigerduty.com/
podcast: https://offcall.simplecast.com/
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Paige Cruz
@paigerduty.com
· Nov 21
a blue bird with an orange beak is standing in front of a blue sky with clouds
Alt: a cartoon blue bird with an orange beak awkwardly waving hello in front of a blue sky with clouds
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hello bluesky
i'm paige cruz aka paigerduty 📟 ❤️
interests include: #OSS instrumentation, #observability AND monitoring, all fiber arts (esp. spinning and quilting), #SRE, fountain pens, lichen and crows.
I blog at paigerduty.com
and host a podcast Off-Call offcall.simplecast.com
#intro
i'm paige cruz aka paigerduty 📟 ❤️
interests include: #OSS instrumentation, #observability AND monitoring, all fiber arts (esp. spinning and quilting), #SRE, fountain pens, lichen and crows.
I blog at paigerduty.com
and host a podcast Off-Call offcall.simplecast.com
#intro
Reposted by Paige Cruz
📢 July episode is out! 📢
Highlights from the @cncf.io 's first Open Observability Summit last month.
With @horovits.bsky.social, @hrexed.bsky.social and Alok Bhide.
Listen/Watch:
🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPa...
Recap post:
👉 medium.com/p/d42c8826d6...
Highlights from the @cncf.io 's first Open Observability Summit last month.
With @horovits.bsky.social, @hrexed.bsky.social and Alok Bhide.
Listen/Watch:
🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPa...
Recap post:
👉 medium.com/p/d42c8826d6...
July 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢 July episode is out! 📢
Highlights from the @cncf.io 's first Open Observability Summit last month.
With @horovits.bsky.social, @hrexed.bsky.social and Alok Bhide.
Listen/Watch:
🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPa...
Recap post:
👉 medium.com/p/d42c8826d6...
Highlights from the @cncf.io 's first Open Observability Summit last month.
With @horovits.bsky.social, @hrexed.bsky.social and Alok Bhide.
Listen/Watch:
🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPa...
Recap post:
👉 medium.com/p/d42c8826d6...
Reposted by Paige Cruz
Did you miss the first-ever Open Observability Summit, which took place last month in Denver by @cncf.io?
Stay tuned to this month's episode with all the highlights. coming out soon!
🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
📺 www.youtube.com/@openobserva...
@hrexed.bsky.social @horovits.bsky.social
Stay tuned to this month's episode with all the highlights. coming out soon!
🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
📺 www.youtube.com/@openobserva...
@hrexed.bsky.social @horovits.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Did you miss the first-ever Open Observability Summit, which took place last month in Denver by @cncf.io?
Stay tuned to this month's episode with all the highlights. coming out soon!
🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
📺 www.youtube.com/@openobserva...
@hrexed.bsky.social @horovits.bsky.social
Stay tuned to this month's episode with all the highlights. coming out soon!
🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
📺 www.youtube.com/@openobserva...
@hrexed.bsky.social @horovits.bsky.social
Reposted by Paige Cruz
and the reality is all data is produced. you design an instrument to measure something be it sentiment or temperature or frequency of occurrence and map your underlying signal to a useful construct
even meters and celsius do not inherently exist absent the tool used to measure them!
even meters and celsius do not inherently exist absent the tool used to measure them!
May 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
and the reality is all data is produced. you design an instrument to measure something be it sentiment or temperature or frequency of occurrence and map your underlying signal to a useful construct
even meters and celsius do not inherently exist absent the tool used to measure them!
even meters and celsius do not inherently exist absent the tool used to measure them!
eeeee finished blocking my latest finished knit project plus put the leftovers to use and crocheted this fun little hood
yarn is from the aptly named Blue Sky Fibers and is the squishiest, softest cotton 10/10 would knit again
#knitting #fiberarts #crochet #knitsky
yarn is from the aptly named Blue Sky Fibers and is the squishiest, softest cotton 10/10 would knit again
#knitting #fiberarts #crochet #knitsky
April 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
eeeee finished blocking my latest finished knit project plus put the leftovers to use and crocheted this fun little hood
yarn is from the aptly named Blue Sky Fibers and is the squishiest, softest cotton 10/10 would knit again
#knitting #fiberarts #crochet #knitsky
yarn is from the aptly named Blue Sky Fibers and is the squishiest, softest cotton 10/10 would knit again
#knitting #fiberarts #crochet #knitsky
still getting settled post-SRECon and so far have:
✅ filled out the #srecon post-event survey
⌨️ treated myself to an IBM keyboard from Free Geek as a reward for delivering "live, laugh, log"
🐈⬛ let Norman sniff every inch of my luggage
✅ filled out the #srecon post-event survey
⌨️ treated myself to an IBM keyboard from Free Geek as a reward for delivering "live, laugh, log"
🐈⬛ let Norman sniff every inch of my luggage
March 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
still getting settled post-SRECon and so far have:
✅ filled out the #srecon post-event survey
⌨️ treated myself to an IBM keyboard from Free Geek as a reward for delivering "live, laugh, log"
🐈⬛ let Norman sniff every inch of my luggage
✅ filled out the #srecon post-event survey
⌨️ treated myself to an IBM keyboard from Free Geek as a reward for delivering "live, laugh, log"
🐈⬛ let Norman sniff every inch of my luggage
do you remember your first PR?
i do bc it was so joyously received
back in my PeopleOps days I had to make a very tiny PR to update some link in the product org docs
so many devs and EM's were stoked to see a PeopleOps'er contributing I got many nice emojis and comments it was lovely
i do bc it was so joyously received
back in my PeopleOps days I had to make a very tiny PR to update some link in the product org docs
so many devs and EM's were stoked to see a PeopleOps'er contributing I got many nice emojis and comments it was lovely
a colorful bird is standing on a black surface .
Alt: a colorful bird is happily hopping around clacking a keyboard
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February 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
do you remember your first PR?
i do bc it was so joyously received
back in my PeopleOps days I had to make a very tiny PR to update some link in the product org docs
so many devs and EM's were stoked to see a PeopleOps'er contributing I got many nice emojis and comments it was lovely
i do bc it was so joyously received
back in my PeopleOps days I had to make a very tiny PR to update some link in the product org docs
so many devs and EM's were stoked to see a PeopleOps'er contributing I got many nice emojis and comments it was lovely
Reposted by Paige Cruz
Coming tomorrow, the next episode of the @voidincidents.bsky.social podcast.
February 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Coming tomorrow, the next episode of the @voidincidents.bsky.social podcast.
revisiting Noa Levi's amaze Monitorama talk "How we tricked engineers into utilizing distributed tracing"
imho a must watch for anyone working on adopting/expanding tracing usage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsv...
#OTel #OpenTelemetry #o11y #observability #tracing #monitoring
imho a must watch for anyone working on adopting/expanding tracing usage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsv...
#OTel #OpenTelemetry #o11y #observability #tracing #monitoring
Monitorama PDX 2024 - How we tricked engineers into utilizing distributed tracing
YouTube video by Monitorama
www.youtube.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
revisiting Noa Levi's amaze Monitorama talk "How we tricked engineers into utilizing distributed tracing"
imho a must watch for anyone working on adopting/expanding tracing usage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsv...
#OTel #OpenTelemetry #o11y #observability #tracing #monitoring
imho a must watch for anyone working on adopting/expanding tracing usage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsv...
#OTel #OpenTelemetry #o11y #observability #tracing #monitoring
tbh I got this on a whim and mostly to use up the last of my #CNCF Store credits from volunteering as co-Track Chair for KubeCon
but ngl... it’s actually my new fave hoodie. it’s SO cozy
😅
but ngl... it’s actually my new fave hoodie. it’s SO cozy
😅
February 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
tbh I got this on a whim and mostly to use up the last of my #CNCF Store credits from volunteering as co-Track Chair for KubeCon
but ngl... it’s actually my new fave hoodie. it’s SO cozy
😅
but ngl... it’s actually my new fave hoodie. it’s SO cozy
😅
pssst… I did a thing 👀
join me on a journey through the vast seas of cloud-native observability! 🌊⚓ I’ll break down key terms, concepts, and need-to-knows in a friendly way
first up an intro to cardinality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNh...
#o11y #observability #tech #cloud #cloudnative #monitoring
join me on a journey through the vast seas of cloud-native observability! 🌊⚓ I’ll break down key terms, concepts, and need-to-knows in a friendly way
first up an intro to cardinality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNh...
#o11y #observability #tech #cloud #cloudnative #monitoring
O11yology - What is Cardinality
YouTube video by Paige@Chronosphere
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
pssst… I did a thing 👀
join me on a journey through the vast seas of cloud-native observability! 🌊⚓ I’ll break down key terms, concepts, and need-to-knows in a friendly way
first up an intro to cardinality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNh...
#o11y #observability #tech #cloud #cloudnative #monitoring
join me on a journey through the vast seas of cloud-native observability! 🌊⚓ I’ll break down key terms, concepts, and need-to-knows in a friendly way
first up an intro to cardinality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNh...
#o11y #observability #tech #cloud #cloudnative #monitoring
cannot wait to deliver my lightning talk at #SRECon this spring
"What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems"
"What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems"
a man in a suit and tie says i want to move on bravo
Alt: andy exasperated, "I want to move on" while facilitating a reunion
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February 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
cannot wait to deliver my lightning talk at #SRECon this spring
"What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems"
"What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems"
data storytelling is an art Observable has perfected
"This heatmap previously revealed a bug where we were loading 200+ notebooks to serve a gallery of only 4–9; by fixing the bug, we reduced the total number of >50KB responses by more than half!"
observablehq.observablehq.cloud/framework-ex...
"This heatmap previously revealed a bug where we were loading 200+ notebooks to serve a gallery of only 4–9; by fixing the bug, we reduced the total number of >50KB responses by more than half!"
observablehq.observablehq.cloud/framework-ex...
February 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
data storytelling is an art Observable has perfected
"This heatmap previously revealed a bug where we were loading 200+ notebooks to serve a gallery of only 4–9; by fixing the bug, we reduced the total number of >50KB responses by more than half!"
observablehq.observablehq.cloud/framework-ex...
"This heatmap previously revealed a bug where we were loading 200+ notebooks to serve a gallery of only 4–9; by fixing the bug, we reduced the total number of >50KB responses by more than half!"
observablehq.observablehq.cloud/framework-ex...
kicked off my Monday reading Is Ops A Bullshit Job? from @danslimmon.bsky.social
"Operations entails constant negotiation between these two spheres: the abstract sphere of software, and the much larger, more complex sociotechnical sphere." 💯
blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/i...
"Operations entails constant negotiation between these two spheres: the abstract sphere of software, and the much larger, more complex sociotechnical sphere." 💯
blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/i...
Is ops a bullshit job?
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely po…
blog.danslimmon.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
kicked off my Monday reading Is Ops A Bullshit Job? from @danslimmon.bsky.social
"Operations entails constant negotiation between these two spheres: the abstract sphere of software, and the much larger, more complex sociotechnical sphere." 💯
blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/i...
"Operations entails constant negotiation between these two spheres: the abstract sphere of software, and the much larger, more complex sociotechnical sphere." 💯
blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/i...
personally love a metaphor when explaining tech stuff, esp in the world of #o11y where terms are overloaded/misunderstood/misapplied
I landed on this postal service metaphor 📫 last year when trying to suss out wtf a telemetry pipeline was
(more here: thenewstack.io/telemetry-pi...)
I landed on this postal service metaphor 📫 last year when trying to suss out wtf a telemetry pipeline was
(more here: thenewstack.io/telemetry-pi...)
February 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
personally love a metaphor when explaining tech stuff, esp in the world of #o11y where terms are overloaded/misunderstood/misapplied
I landed on this postal service metaphor 📫 last year when trying to suss out wtf a telemetry pipeline was
(more here: thenewstack.io/telemetry-pi...)
I landed on this postal service metaphor 📫 last year when trying to suss out wtf a telemetry pipeline was
(more here: thenewstack.io/telemetry-pi...)
I can judge how my week/brain is faring by:
the state of my desk & the number of browser tabs (and windows) I have open
I'm going to give this week a B- so far... how bout you?
the state of my desk & the number of browser tabs (and windows) I have open
I'm going to give this week a B- so far... how bout you?
February 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I can judge how my week/brain is faring by:
the state of my desk & the number of browser tabs (and windows) I have open
I'm going to give this week a B- so far... how bout you?
the state of my desk & the number of browser tabs (and windows) I have open
I'm going to give this week a B- so far... how bout you?
I know Norman hates jazz & metalcore but have FINALLY discovered music he does like:
guqin & everything Nature's Spirit does on harp
he's achieved levels of relaxation and peace I can only dream of
#CatsOfBsky #cats #Meowsky
open.spotify.com/playlist/6C9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cl...
guqin & everything Nature's Spirit does on harp
he's achieved levels of relaxation and peace I can only dream of
#CatsOfBsky #cats #Meowsky
open.spotify.com/playlist/6C9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cl...
December 13, 2024 at 9:21 PM
I know Norman hates jazz & metalcore but have FINALLY discovered music he does like:
guqin & everything Nature's Spirit does on harp
he's achieved levels of relaxation and peace I can only dream of
#CatsOfBsky #cats #Meowsky
open.spotify.com/playlist/6C9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cl...
guqin & everything Nature's Spirit does on harp
he's achieved levels of relaxation and peace I can only dream of
#CatsOfBsky #cats #Meowsky
open.spotify.com/playlist/6C9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cl...
Reposted by Paige Cruz
There is a meme format going around Bluesky where people share an image of an arrow pointing to the bottom right, where the alt badge is on Bluesky. The gag or punch line of this meme is that when the user selects the alt badge, they get a joke. This is not the intended purpose of alt text.
December 12, 2024 at 7:08 PM
There is a meme format going around Bluesky where people share an image of an arrow pointing to the bottom right, where the alt badge is on Bluesky. The gag or punch line of this meme is that when the user selects the alt badge, they get a joke. This is not the intended purpose of alt text.
in honor of publishing Off-Call pt 2 with @bidetofevil.wtf all about mobile SLOs today...
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
I want to spotlight 5 of my fave mobile apps 📱❤️:
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
I want to spotlight 5 of my fave mobile apps 📱❤️:
Off-Call with Paige Cruz: Is Mobile Observability A Misnomer? Part 2
Paige Cruz sits down with Hanson Ho to explore the nuances of mobile observability, in part 2 of the series.
chronosphere.io
December 11, 2024 at 8:18 PM
in honor of publishing Off-Call pt 2 with @bidetofevil.wtf all about mobile SLOs today...
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
I want to spotlight 5 of my fave mobile apps 📱❤️:
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
I want to spotlight 5 of my fave mobile apps 📱❤️:
while backend/infra folks deal with *too* much telemetry that is SO not the case for our friends in mobile (yet!) as I learned in the latest Off-Call ft. @bidetofevil.wtf
but why tho? and what can be done?
👂Listen to find out
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
#mobile #monitoring #observability
but why tho? and what can be done?
👂Listen to find out
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
#mobile #monitoring #observability
December 4, 2024 at 6:17 PM
while backend/infra folks deal with *too* much telemetry that is SO not the case for our friends in mobile (yet!) as I learned in the latest Off-Call ft. @bidetofevil.wtf
but why tho? and what can be done?
👂Listen to find out
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
#mobile #monitoring #observability
but why tho? and what can be done?
👂Listen to find out
chronosphere.io/resource/off...
#mobile #monitoring #observability
after spending all day editing transcripts I found the perfect little brain break
neal.fun/perfect-circ...
neal.fun/perfect-circ...
November 27, 2024 at 12:09 AM
after spending all day editing transcripts I found the perfect little brain break
neal.fun/perfect-circ...
neal.fun/perfect-circ...
Reposted by Paige Cruz
🔍 **Optimizing Observability: Sending Only What Matters**
*Lessons from a $15,000 log event that delivered 0 value.*
💡 **Every event has a price.**
If telemetry isn’t actionable or valuable, it’s not just adding noise—it’s burning money. Here’s how to avoid that trap: ...
*Lessons from a $15,000 log event that delivered 0 value.*
💡 **Every event has a price.**
If telemetry isn’t actionable or valuable, it’s not just adding noise—it’s burning money. Here’s how to avoid that trap: ...
November 22, 2024 at 11:03 PM
🔍 **Optimizing Observability: Sending Only What Matters**
*Lessons from a $15,000 log event that delivered 0 value.*
💡 **Every event has a price.**
If telemetry isn’t actionable or valuable, it’s not just adding noise—it’s burning money. Here’s how to avoid that trap: ...
*Lessons from a $15,000 log event that delivered 0 value.*
💡 **Every event has a price.**
If telemetry isn’t actionable or valuable, it’s not just adding noise—it’s burning money. Here’s how to avoid that trap: ...
💯
my approach to writing talk abstracts totally changed after i realized they who they actually were for
my approach to writing talk abstracts totally changed after i realized they who they actually were for
November 23, 2024 at 2:55 AM
💯
my approach to writing talk abstracts totally changed after i realized they who they actually were for
my approach to writing talk abstracts totally changed after i realized they who they actually were for