AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE?.
We got from "measure everything" by Twitter to "monitor only what matters" by Honeycomb. Yet, alert fatigue, convoluted dashboards, and garbage metrics are still an issue today.
Could AI solve this? We simply don't know yet. The linked article speculates on this topic: is AI in Observability just another marketing trick or something that could help engineers to solve issues faster or more importantly prevent those issues all together.
#ai #observabilty
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A friend of mine is raising funds for drones and other equipment for the International Legion of Ukraine.
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/7282sCqqgy
Currently, 60k out of 75k is there, so let's help him to reach the goal!
#donations #Ukraine
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I have surely seen similar projects before, but it means that the idea is compelling.
Cyphernetes is a query language for Kubernetes inspired by Cypher (Neo4j query language).
It’s open source and available on GitHub.
So, the idea of being able to use some more or less generic query language to check your infrastructure is there. There are different implementations and none of them is a “golden standard” today. Yet, let’s see. Maybe, one day we would have one.
#kubernetes
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Your company needs Junior devs.
This article reminds me of when a long time ago a senior manager was doing a presentation which had a tweet: "A team of senior engineers without juniors is just a team of engineers". This manager tried to make a point of how egalitarian we are because the team is so senior, but was quickly corrected by one of the engineers that they missed the point of the original tweet completely.
I really like how this article shifts the perspective of a senior developer:
companies, they argue, see the “assembly line” of a knowledge firm. They see the outputs: KPIs, OKRs, Quarterly results. If you only think in terms of the assembly line, you will only seek units of input that increase those outputs (ie expert employees that ‘hit the ground running’ to churn out higher metrics).
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employees come prepared with that Socratic dialog: to ask dumb questions and seek their answers. Often, it turns out, experts – through ego or blindness - don’t see obvious solutions. They don’t question tacit assumptions. Juniors on the other hand eagerly crash into, and sometimes through, problems seniors have convinced themselves are too hard. Juniors try “dumb” things that often fail, but sometimes show how blinded experts have become from their long held assumptions.
The main point is that people who ask many questions (juniors) foster the culture of curiosity and psychological safety, while even for some more senior folks it might be too shameful to ask questions that "should" be "obvious" for those with many years in the industry. Therefore, without a culture of curiosity, many problems will be swiped under the rug.
And yet, this is way too hard these days for junior folks to find a job. Trading short-term gains for the cost of long-term consequences. This has never ever happened to humanity before!
#culture
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Why Cutting Costs is Expensive: How $9/Hour Software Engineers Cost Boeing Billions.
This is a quite famous story about Boeings 737-Max falling down because of a software bug.
A friend of mine was closely following this story from even before the tragedies. Since it all started with Airbus blowing Boeing out of the water.
Anyway, let this article be a reminder to you that software engineering is not just for cat videos these days.
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Since I’m a bit busy this week, I cannot really bring too many articles to you this week.
Every time this happens, Humble Bundle comes to my rescue :D
So, today I want to share a bundle of courses about cloud by Packt.
You can get it for a bit more than $20 for the next 11 days.
#courses
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Some people know that I'm not a fan of Python. Yet, I have to tolerate it because it is objectively one of the most popular and widespread programming languages.
So, here is an article about asynchronous code in Python.
Enjoy!
#programming #python
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A very nice collection of books on software architecture by O’Reilly.
As usual, you can pay different amount to unlock various number of books.
#books
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Happy Independence Day, cats!
As you know, freedom never comes for free. So, the best way to celebrate this day is to make a donation to your charity of choice.
Here the list of charities I link to almost every post
Also, I would like to remind you about fundraisers from our friends at:
- UkrOps Club
- UA DevOps
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A fundraiser for equipment for FPV drones by the UkrOps community is still ongoing!
About 40% still left.
You can top up a Monobank jar:
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/6k2H9iu8tN
Or a card directly:
5375411219683781
Original post
#donations #Ukraine
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We have made the VictoriaLogs stack for storing logs and the main goal will be to collect logs from k8s.
At the moment the product is ready and shows itself very well (does not require resources, compresses data very well)
https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/
Among the features - supports many protocols for data insertion (including native syslog, promtail (and all variations of this name), elasticsearch, examples of how to write through standard log shippers).
VictoriaLogs has visualisation in Grafana and its own UI + query langues, which allows you to basically do whatever you want with logs (filtering analytics slide/dice).
We plan to release the cluster and officially announce that everything is ready on Kubecon NA this fall.
The Roadmap: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/roadmap/
As for important things: cluster support for s3, alerting and operator (now only helm chart is available).
We'll be glad to get feedback at our telegram community @ or at https://slack.victoriametrics.com
The code is here - https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/master/app/victoria-logs (monorepo for VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs)
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The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012 is a short story of rolling a massive change at Google.
Basically, they have enforced formatting rules for all the BUILD files for Bazel.
What I like in this story is how this change ended up being uneventful. Which confirms a point: if formatter is integrated into your workflow, you don't care about formatting, you don't even think about it much.
And this is one of the reasons I like Go so much: it has a formatter integrated into the language itself. Same thing with Terraform.
#culture
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A bit of Ukrainian tech community building.
Recently, our friend from UkrOps Digest asked his subscribers if they have any Telegram/YouTube channels, blogs, or other communities where they share their technical expertise.
Needless to say that there are quite a few responses to that post. I'm sure you'll be able to find something to your taste there as well!
Also, if you have a channel or a blog, make sure to leave a comment there as well. Or even better - make a pull request to the Awesome List of Ukrainian IT Communities!
#community #culture #Ukraine
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