a keynote for YOW! London Playing games, we can focus deeply and work really hard and also have a good time. This is what I want out of work, too. Traditional gamification adds points, competition, and badges to make work appear more game-like. This corrodes collaboration, replacing a deeper meaning with superficial characteristics of games. …
This is a small talk for Bridges Summit, 28 August 2024. References and Recommendations: Combining, by Nora Bateson. ⬅ this is about seeing the second and third-order effects of what we do. It helps me live in a world that is so far from perfect, and work to make it better without despair. (I don’t …
For a demo app, I want a simple-as-possible deploy script. The simplest thing is to hard-code the version number (which gives my docker image a unique tag, which gets kubernetes to pull the new image1). But I’m tired of updating the version number. So I made the script update it for me. Why not use …
Video from DevOpsDays Rockies, September 2024.Keynote at SwiftCraft, Folkestone, UK, 24 May 2024.also given at Explore DDD (video), March 2024; also given at Emerging Tech East, April 2024 At Honeycomb, we have a company value: Everything is an Experiment. Sometimes people take that too literally, and try to make every UI change an A/B test, …
TL;DR: right now OTel Logs are a little harder to use than span events, but otherwise they are superior. Today I wanted to send OTLP Logs and see them correlated with my traces. First problem: logs aren’t available in the OTel JavaScript SDK. They’re still in development. (It is the end of 2023.) There is …
When I make a website, even a toy one, I want to get telemetry. Has anyone visited it? Did my JavaScript crash? Little things. I want to send this with OpenTelemetry, because it’s the industry standard and all. Currently (November 2023), that requires a whole JavaScript build chain to package up the libraries etc etc. …
For: [Virtual open Space] Systems Thinking and Skillful Interaction 20 September, 2023 Keynote by Jessica Kerr, jessitron.com These are my notes, publishing for people who were there (or anyone who wants to read them) Working Skillfully in Complexity Plan: about half on the technical side of sociotechnical systems, half on social. I can’t define what …
To the tune of “The knee bone’s connected to the hip bone”: Docker builds your app into a container image Push the image up to the image repository Put the repository, image name, and tag into the container definition And now we’re into the YAML. The container YAML goes inside the pod YAML. The pod …
We’re talking here about “feedback” as commentary from people you work with, telling you what you could do better—in particular, 360° Feedback as part of a performance review. I’ve capitalized “Feedback” in this post in reference to this particular use of the word. The benefits of Feedback are purely mythological. Carol Sanford, No More Feedback …
Today we wrote some code, told it to send a trace to Honeycomb, and it didn’t. No traces, no error message, why??? This happened to us on AWS Lambda, and it could happen other places too. These debugging techniques can be helpful anywhere you’re struggling with OpenTelemetry. Here I’ll demonstrate them in a tiny Node …