I was making some notes from everything I have done around metrics in the last year, but then ended up turning that into an elaborate blog. Metrics in #Observability space are overused. If you don't pay close attention, you will over pay the vendor. performanceengineeringin.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/obs…

Faking PTO to write code is a globally useful tip.

The author of the book CODE, Charles Petzold, is making Logarithms understandable. I love this his latest work. lostartoflogarithms.com/chapter01/

If you are a Staff Engineer or above, you need consume this. paper.dropbox.com/doc/Sammys-Tec…

"Q: How to destroy your social capital? A: Request a lot of changes on a PR."

The best Software Architect role description that I have read : "instead of the superhero we need “super glue” architects—the guys who hold architecture, technical details, business needs, and people together across a large organization or complex projects"

you need the founder. you need the founder there - he actually needs to be present. if the founder is gone it's over. this is why you can't invest in founders that are normal. normal people would stop pushing as soon as they have a modicum of success. you need insane founders

I am very skeptic when it comes to using any for of AI for doing the first draft of Writing. Writing is how I "Think". And it's true for many, imo. I read the post below recently, and concur the feeling on writing (thinking) with AI. dcurt.is/thinking?utm_s…

DHH Lex Fridman I loved this advice to young programmers: "If you like programming, you should learn programming. Just be content with all outcomes." This is how I live too. Great life lesson 🫶.

Be it music, code, technical writings or whatever.. are you "producing" ? Some of the best advices to come back to every few months. guzey.com/personal/what-…

SLO's! 100% green is great, but if your SLA is 98%, use that 2% to test in prod. Break things intentionally (maybe) and test that things will really on that rainy day.

When to Emit What O11y Signal? akshayd.dev/2025/09/04/whe…

".... technical skill, product thinking, project execution, and people skills. And the more senior you get, the more you’re expected to contribute to each." joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isn…

When working with / building a storage systems, I so much prefer "append only" form of writes. Makes dealing with concurrency, crash recovery and sequential writes - so much easier.

Staff Archetypes. staffeng.com/guides/staff-a…

Probably the best CS advice in a single picture. Source- teachyourselfcs.com