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Team design is hard and sometimes you have to choose between a team owning tech systems vs a team owning business problems. My experience is pick the latter 99% of the time. Sacrifices a bit of synergies but makes you move much faster.

If you don't understand how big AWS in Cloud, consider this metric: AWS makes more money on re:Invent registration fees this year than Oracle+IBM cloud revenues.

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Charlie Munger is 96 today. Awesomely fitting that his bday is Jan. 1 — “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.”

Pretty damn cool to be airing a Super Bowl commercial this year.

oldie, but goodie (and ohhh so relevant)

Requests are salmon. They swim upstream, do their thing, and the result comes back downstream. Or they get eaten by bears, which I think might make a better error message than "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers". Just an idea Envoy

Enjoying the series :) nytimes.com/2020/04/15/art…

Giving a shit is a competitive advantage.

Opserver on .NET Core is about ready to merge into mainline (just been very lazy about it). And Dean Ward got the dashboard going again after our Bosun -> SignalFX migration. It's even more fun to look at after the .NET Core move:

Another example of sheer lunacy that will negatively impact our country’s future

Like this, but the bricks are on fire

Yes, Kubernetes is complicated. So is everything.

I cannot believe what Pogba just did

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It’s 2021. And despite everything that’s been said and written about and tweeted and argued and debated (I’m as guilty as anyone here myself) and despite us having better tooling now than ever before, observability of complex systems is still pretty hard, yo. Happy Friday.

Life skill: create urgency without creating panic.

#mustgofaster