jmoiron plays the blues

MTTM, or mean time to metrics, measures how long it takes a hot new observability platform to add metrics to their platform.

Lots of talk about closed for contrib. Databases and DB tools are lightning rods for questions that are actually pтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжfg

"the fundamental approach used to scale distributed systems is avoiding co-ordination" - @MarcJBrookerтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжSn

did @ladykan find the deep state? #POTUS46 https://t.co/Unin27QTNz

Monitoring also got a bad name because it was routinely portrayed in its straw man form as an outmoded and ineffectтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж6B

Just give the representatives clear backpacks, problem solved.

Sickening. The website claimed an "address" of 300-392 east 85th st, which is not an address. But the correct zipтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжWf

While leftists in my TL were calling out the danger of Biden's call for expansion of powers to fight domestic terroтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжFr

A partial outage is not an "incident", it's an outage.

No enums is more consistently annoying than no generics. Sometimes I think wistfully about how generics would helpтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжVG

Coworker pointed this out, pretty neat to see sqlx (and therefore my name) in a sample screenshot in the latest GolтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжtj

South Dakota has roughly the same number of staffed hospital beds as New York Presbyterian.

So we've put all the work into widespread testing so we can see the second wave coming, but we're... just going toтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжbl

Wow people in LA even get their cars tested eh twitter.com/jayberger/statтАж

The latest HN comment thread regarding Go and healthcare.gov is even more toxic than I anticipated and I didn't have high hopes.

Fascinated by @SteveKornacki, someone whose name begins with a K, repeatedly failing to draw a legible K on television.

Helshire beach, and the curry fish and lobster we had there, is probably my favourite memory of Jamaica; deeply sadтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжFY

Kinda hilarious that "political activist group" Project Veritas has less credibility than Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

I wrote about C++ and how it's still ugly and confusing to me jmoiron.net/blog/cpp-deserтАж

It's been about 2 1/2 years since I wrote "Is K8s Too Complicated?" and things haven't changed much on that front.тАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж6P

HashiCorp stuff is, among other things, an opportunity to use HCL instead of YAML and there's always a part of me tтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжvH

This is a common sentiment. The performance work that makes this approach successful is a positive externality thaтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж5D

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