Monthly Archives: August 2024

Send Metrics Not Logs

Posted on August 9, 2024 by way0utwest

This is part of a series on observability, a concept taking hold in modern software engineering. One of the interesting things I saw in an engineering presentation on Observability from Chik-Fil-A was that they are sometimes bandwidth-constrained at remote sites. … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Hiddled

Posted on August 9, 2024 by way0utwest

hiddled – adj.  feeling of loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself. I don’t know I am often hiddled. I don’t tend to keep secrets by myself. Often I do share with my wife, because it’s important to … Continue reading →

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DevOps Days Minneapolis–Best Practices for Database Deployments

Posted on August 8, 2024 by way0utwest

Thanks to everyone who attended, though with one stage I had a fairly captive audience. I enjoyed the event and look forward to coming back to the Twin Cities in the future. A few nice questions, which I’ll address in … Continue reading →

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Simple Talks–Episode 3

Posted on August 7, 2024 by way0utwest

The third episode of Simple Talks is out. This is the new Redgate podcast from myself, Grant, Ryan, and Louis. The main page is here, and it has links to the audio versions as well as a the video one. … Continue reading →

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