In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings? We’ve seen different companies tackle this in different ways for technology like Ruby on Rails, AWS, Kubernetes, and now OpenTelemetry .
Clearly, I have been slacking for the last weeks. Just look at all the links from other people at the bottom! This might also be the last post for the year, as I will be enjoying the festive season. Nonetheless, a lot of great content this week. I discovered a few new blogs that will keep me busy for the future.
AI is here to stay. Tech is basically doing an all out assault on the arts and humanities. Tech is cannibalizing itself. Systems are crashing. I am coming at this not just as a code-writing system-designing person(that is my bread and butter yes), but also as a writer, a translator, an interpreter