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!

yas! in particular what pulled me in was the simple plain language used combined with great data storytelling www.portland.gov/bes/about-bi...

I keep flip flopping between investing in my Mac setup or really committing to Linux Mint.....

and then not too long after that when I was training under our data analytics guru for recruiting I merged a PR that completely borked our reporting for a good couple days 😓

the highs and lows of learning about version control and the impact changes can have lol

stunning!!

"at the end of 2023 we [Strava] decided to migrate to OpenTelemetry and noticed we had an increase in [tracing] adoption. Weird. That was not our plan."

"we actually saw a 50% increase in adoption"

(!!!) many orgs would love to have even a quarter of devs actually using tracing

if only the pj pants had pockets...then they would be my #1

(and yes I do have an entire CNCF section in my closet after only a few years of KubeCon volunteering)

i’ve got plenty of ideas for future vids, but lmk what o11y concepts trip you (or your teammates) up, let's chart this course together 🗺️

heh the title is a bit misleading its more like:
99% what *not* to do and 1% what to do

ugh can I not edit posts??? I forgot to upload the alt text :(

ALT: Response size, color by route scatter plot
y-axis shows response size in bytes and x-axis is time

this view really highlights individual paths, visible as horizontal striations.

I get asked a lot (from marketing colleagues) why I use the term "ops" or "operators"

and to me its about acknowledging the distinct and important role that SRE/Infra/"DevOps" teams bring as a complement to devs