Andreas
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Andreas
@taranetz.com
Every byte counts!
Holistic Developer & Tech Evangelist @Dynatrace
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"... you have been put to work to make automation work. That's not how automation is supposed to work"
- @edzitron.com

We have started with prompt engineering.

Now we are context engineering.

Maybe we should just get better at actual engineering.
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If you ever need to figure out what's going on in your system, check the /proc folder.

Aivars Kalvāns walked us through the proc filesystem and showed us where to find everything from the arguments a process was started with to its open network connections.

#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Finally a solution to the 💩 in 💩out issue all observability tools face.

@dominik.suess.wtf showed us how OTel Weaver can ensure different teams use the same names and data types for the same kind of data.
It uses metric defintions to generate code / docs / dashboards
#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Another tool I need to check out: Sigstore - the Let's encrypt of supply chain security - as Stephan Kraft put it.

#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
How do you find issues that involve your service mesh's side car proxies?

You need to make them less transparent and include them in your traces.

Konrad Renner showed us how it's done at #CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You might not need to build your own controller for custom resources.
Instead you could use KRO and its resource graph definition as @yveshwang.bsky.social showed us.

#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Day 2 of #CloudNativeDaysAustria was kicked off by @lauratacho.com

She explained why DX still matters and how to communicate this to your management.

Pro tip: use the venn diagram from her presentation 😉
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Today @t-sc.eu shared his learnings from karriere.at about how platform engineers can actually improve the experience for developers (especially of microservices) instead of just forcing them to learn yet another tool.

#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
@adrianamvillela.bsky.social and @joshleecreates.bsky.social showed us why OTEL didn't follow the pattern of xkcd.com/927/

Great talk! It always helps to understand where the purpose of one tool ends and others need to take over.

#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sarah Christoff gave us a nice refresher about solving deadlocks.

I wouldn't have considered the resources themselves to be part of a possible solution (by requiring certain procedures to update their state)

#CloudNativeDaysAustria
October 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I want more websites to have little whimsical touches, like @vitest.dev's feature overview.

vitest.dev/guide/featur...
Aligned with the vibe of the product, making the important things stand out without being distracting.
👏👏👏
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm glad the weather was better on the second day of this year's #WeAreDevelopers World Congress, so I could give my talk on working API first on the Open Air stage
youtu.be/OLPfuIfcwb8
15 10 855128 Taranetz Airstream 1 API First Successfully decoupling teams
YouTube video by WeAreDevelopers
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July 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I won 2nd place but all I got was new knowledge.
Thanks to @lirantal.com for packing the dry topic of security into a fun quiz. #WeAreDevelopers
July 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Some people have a strange sense of humor:
Senior Internship - unpaid but PhD and 40+h/week required
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another interesting talk from todays #codecrafts vienna conference.

Bjorna Kalaja raised awareness for Green Software Principles and ran through different kinds of common refactorings.

E.g.: It pays of to simplify your data models to save energy.
Splitting your monolith has the oppsite effect.
May 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thanks to @suksr.bsky.social for showing that is possible move away from legacy systems without a big bang (@ #codecrafts vienna).

Your team structure, software architecture, and business requriements are connected and need to evolve together to reach your target system structure.
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Banger talks @@viennajs.bsky.social in the @dynatrace.com Vienna office

@danielroe.dev persuaded us to build CLIs, to free ourselves from repetitive tasks and achieve effortlessness.

@bitsbysigrid.bsky.social dove deep into how ESM modules make the injection of observability tools especially hard.
April 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are allowed to vote in Vienna go check out
wahlkabine.at
wahlkabine.at
Österreichs erfolgreichste Politik-Orientierungshilfe im Internet
wahlkabine.at
March 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
👀 I like seeing old things with a new twist.

😍 I love it when people make them available as web apps.

🤩 I praise those who make the experience even work nicely on mobile.

Check out cracked sudoku by @danielchooper.bsky.social

danielchasehooper.com/posts/cracke...
A New Sudoku Layout With 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells
My journey making a Sudoku variant that doesn’t have rows or columns
danielchasehooper.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Life hack 💡
Use empty toilet paper rolls to keep your cables rolled up nicely.

Big brain move: Write the type or purpose of the cable on the roll to keep access times low.

If you have a better system let me know!
March 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Can I run Tesla's car software in a local container?

I've got a business idea involving captchas 😉
February 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In addition to that, I wish more projects would provide update guides like @angular.dev does.
angular.dev/update-guide
Not enough docs have brownfield instructions.

Everything is “npx create some-stack —template typescript-and-tailwind”
February 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Is it hard to center stuff using CSS?

Yes... but today it is because there are almost too many options to choose from.

@kevinpowell.co made a nice compilation that I wish I could engrave in my brain: www.youtube.com/shorts/YBMBh...
Centering in CSS is a meme for the wrong reasons
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Word!
Reality is messy and so is tech writing. The best we can aspire to is to surf the waves of chaos without drowning. All else is self-deceit or an irresistible urge to tidy the sock drawer.
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Andreas
"We've reduced our support load by 99.9% using AI"

In reality... your customer can't get ANY support now

I'm getting tired of these terrible AI bot rollouts...

Example:
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM