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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Category: Log Tagged: log tech
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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 …
Category: Log Tagged: log tech pi coding projects
Read MoreThanks to my accomodating erstwhile colleagues, I'm able to publish the original paper (with minor redactions so it makes sense for an external audience). A version of this paper later became Chapter 29 of the SRE Book.
To add a little bit of extra colour, the document came out of …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing
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Let's try every week or so? No excuses about no time :-)
The last week or two have been decompressing, switching off. I found/find myself unable to do most of the technical/outside/etc. stuff that would usually count as "Doing stuff I want", in favour of a sort of …
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