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Leon Adato
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Itinerant wandering IT storyteller & DevOps ferret. #Monitoring, #Observability & automation fanboi. Author @ adatosystems.com. Host of TechnicallyReligious.com podcast. He/him. No #manels. Ask me about my grandkids.
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Ok #sreday, here I come!
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I'm prepping slides for my talk at #SREday Amsterdam next week and thought I'd share this one. If you are in the neighborhood, it's going to be a fun conference for everyone!

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October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW POST! Semantic Caching: What We Measured, Why It Matters
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Semantic caching promises to make AI systems faster and cheaper by reducing duplicate calls to large language models (LLMs).
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October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! AI CURMUDGEON: AI is a backhoe
It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! Here’s the proof: What the fastest sites on the web have in common
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) 60% of Gen Z won’t engage with a slow-loading website. In today’s digital economy, that’s a deal-breaker.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New Post! Software migration: Pain vs Risk
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced my fair share of software upgrades, migrations, and replacements.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! Observability isn’t about the tool. It’s about the truth
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NEW POST! Monitoring versu...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! From the source to the edge: the six agent types you can’t ignore
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! Content Funnel Done Right
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
NEW POST! Content Funnel Done Right
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! Getting Started with Traceroute
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) “Traceroute? You mean the thing I can type at the command line? Why would I even want to set up a test for that?” This is, believe it or not, a comment we hear a lot at Catchpoint.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEW POST! Punchline, or Gut-Punch?
In that moment, anyone in the audience who'd made that choice found themselves in an unintentional spotlight. Without my meaning to, I'd made them and their work the butt of a joke.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@duolingoesp.bsky.social I was NOT expecting that plot twist at the end!
September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
NEW POST! Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol is here—Now Let’s Make it Observable
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Can your AI tools really work together, or are they still stuck in silos?
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September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!!
September 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"So, Leon, what do you do for exercise?"
"I bring in my daughter's groceries. "
My daughter's groceries:
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'm speaking in about 1.5 hours but #APIWorld Workshop Studio A is a hike from the reg. desk. So here's a video walk-through to help you find me.
September 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you're at #APIWorld today, so am I!

Come hear me talk about "Network Observability: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and more important than ever" at 1:30 on Workshop Stage A. It's 25 minutes lone, and there will be prizes for everyone who makes it to the end.
September 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
...PATION!
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM