2021 Retrospective

Sat 01 January 2022

2021 was a year. I've seen the receipts.

In summing it up, I guess I'll preface it by saying that this, more than any previous year, was one where the shared experience of being the connected human was a more closely bonded one than ever. The shared experience definitely had …

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A Short History

Thu 22 July 2021

I'm allowed one cheat blog post, as a treat.

The twitter thread I posted a while back seems to have gotten some attention. It's reproduced on threadreader but that too shall pass (and I auto-delete my tweets after 90 days), so here's a reproduction.

The SRE book is a history …

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June 13 2021

Sun 13 June 2021

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This past week was my first week at elastic.co, where I am now a Director of Engineering - taking on the SRE group and making Elastic Cloud go (Elastic Cloud is essentially the SaaS version of Elastic Search - i.e. you can of course run it yourself, or you can …

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June 06 2021

Sun 06 June 2021

The last few days (among other things) saw a little work on the previous project, as well as taking advantage of having new hardware to mess about with.

My desktop OS journey has a 12-year (or so) mac gap in it -- which is to say that I used to use …

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May 24 2021

Mon 24 May 2021

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Showed up to a few low-key conferences last week (Multitasking between SLOconf and o11yfest for a few days).

It felt great to be catching up with some folks I hadn't in a while -- not having the GOOG hat on was a refreshing change. It's like the manager/director/VP/whatever …

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