Charity Majors So really the job of the engineer is and always has been to restate problems in ways that expose relations to systems that can in turn do something with them. The work isn’t writing code it’s identifying salience and conserving semantics. Code is a byproduct.

Charity Majors In my lifetime the primary tool for restating problems into useful expressions has been programming languages, but that’s an artifact of our automation processes. Restating in concise English would be fine if something could parse and execute that. And we are getting there.

Just want to put in your ear that according to the latest DORA report, only 18% of respondents can do what Flickr was doing in 2009: deploy 10 times a day. I know we'll quibble on it being a good metric. But we've been steadily moving the goal posts backwards from the jump.

Even the evidence that pg presents for ‘founder mode good’ isn’t a slam dunk. “Airbnb's free cash flow margin is now among the best in Silicon Valley.” Is it because of founder mode, or is it because Airbnb has a negative cash conversion cycle, and it’s now well tuned?

(For those who don’t business, that means that Airbnb collects cash it can use up front and pays hosts much later. Historically this has led to extremely good cash dynamics, which is why Airbnb had no need to raise excessively, and the founders are comparatively undiluted)

Here is a series of case studies where EVERY SINGLE ONE produced a market beating performance over multiple DECADES and the CEO was completely operationally hands-off. Business context matters. commoncog.com/c/concepts/cap…

Yes! Preach!!! 🙌 Arbitrarily-wide structured log events are the way, the truth and the light, and whosoever believeth in them shall not perish but have everlasting life in observability. 🙏

I have this in my onboarding deck. You can always ask, but I can’t always answer. If I can’t answer, you’ve gotta resist asking why (because I can’t tell you why, either, most likely). Part of how you know you can trust me is I won’t talk about what I can’t talk about.

This is really clever!

Observability.👇 Yep!! 📈🌸✨

It's a little-known fact that should be MUCH better known: that AWS has been using arbitrarily-wide structured logs internally to understand core services for AGES. They don't use the term "canonical logs", so it's just about impossible to find them talking about it. But true.

I would say "persistence in the face of chronic, catastrophic disaster, discouragement and failure." (Punishment makes it sound so *personal*!) But yeah. When you put it that way...it's a little strange there's aren't more founders with a background in SRE/ops engineering. 🙃

Congrats to the team at Odigos on a successful fundraise!! "Enterprise-Grade OpenTelemetry" is a 🔥 tagline, and this is a great team who is making shit happen.