a TON of great courses and certs via Linux Foundation Education 🍎 🐧 💚 are discounted thru Tues Dec 9th go! go! go! ->https://training.linuxfoundation.org/cyber-week-2025

when you call console.log() this is what happens

📢 July episode is out! 📢 Highlights from the @cncf.io 's first Open Observability Summit last month. With @horovits.bsky.social, @hrexed.bsky.social and Alok Bhide. Listen/Watch: 🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPa... Recap post: 👉 medium.com/p/d42c8826d6...

Did you miss the first-ever Open Observability Summit, which took place last month in Denver by @cncf.io? Stay tuned to this month's episode with all the highlights. coming out soon! 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... 📺 www.youtube.com/@openobserva... @hrexed.bsky.social @horovits.bsky.social

and the reality is all data is produced. you design an instrument to measure something be it sentiment or temperature or frequency of occurrence and map your underlying signal to a useful construct even meters and celsius do not inherently exist absent the tool used to measure them!

eeeee finished blocking my latest finished knit project plus put the leftovers to use and crocheted this fun little hood yarn is from the aptly named Blue Sky Fibers and is the squishiest, softest cotton 10/10 would knit again #knitting #fiberarts #crochet #knitsky

still getting settled post-SRECon and so far have: ✅ filled out the #srecon post-event survey ⌨️ treated myself to an IBM keyboard from Free Geek as a reward for delivering "live, laugh, log" 🐈‍⬛ let Norman sniff every inch of my luggage

do you remember your first PR? i do bc it was so joyously received back in my PeopleOps days I had to make a very tiny PR to update some link in the product org docs so many devs and EM's were stoked to see a PeopleOps'er contributing I got many nice emojis and comments it was lovely

Coming tomorrow, the next episode of the @voidincidents.bsky.social podcast.

revisiting Noa Levi's amaze Monitorama talk "How we tricked engineers into utilizing distributed tracing" imho a must watch for anyone working on adopting/expanding tracing usage www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsv... #OTel #OpenTelemetry #o11y #observability #tracing #monitoring

tbh I got this on a whim and mostly to use up the last of my #CNCF Store credits from volunteering as co-Track Chair for KubeCon but ngl... it’s actually my new fave hoodie. it’s SO cozy 😅

pssst… I did a thing 👀 join me on a journey through the vast seas of cloud-native observability! 🌊⚓ I’ll break down key terms, concepts, and need-to-knows in a friendly way first up an intro to cardinality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNh... #o11y #observability #tech #cloud #cloudnative #monitoring

cannot wait to deliver my lightning talk at #SRECon this spring "What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems"

data storytelling is an art Observable has perfected "This heatmap previously revealed a bug where we were loading 200+ notebooks to serve a gallery of only 4–9; by fixing the bug, we reduced the total number of >50KB responses by more than half!" observablehq.observablehq.cloud/framework-ex...

kicked off my Monday reading Is Ops A Bullshit Job? from @danslimmon.bsky.social "Operations entails constant negotiation between these two spheres: the abstract sphere of software, and the much larger, more complex sociotechnical sphere." 💯 blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/i...

personally love a metaphor when explaining tech stuff, esp in the world of #o11y where terms are overloaded/misunderstood/misapplied I landed on this postal service metaphor 📫 last year when trying to suss out wtf a telemetry pipeline was (more here: thenewstack.io/telemetry-pi...)

I can judge how my week/brain is faring by: the state of my desk & the number of browser tabs (and windows) I have open I'm going to give this week a B- so far... how bout you?

TIL Prometheus started out as "an ambitious pet project" developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometh...

I know Norman hates jazz & metalcore but have FINALLY discovered music he does like: guqin & everything Nature's Spirit does on harp he's achieved levels of relaxation and peace I can only dream of #CatsOfBsky #cats #Meowsky open.spotify.com/playlist/6C9... www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cl...

anytime I bring up OpenTracing or OpenCensus tenor.com/bN49O.gif #RealHousewivesOfDevOps

There is a meme format going around Bluesky where people share an image of an arrow pointing to the bottom right, where the alt badge is on Bluesky. The gag or punch line of this meme is that when the user selects the alt badge, they get a joke. This is not the intended purpose of alt text.

in honor of publishing Off-Call pt 2 with @bidetofevil.wtf all about mobile SLOs today... chronosphere.io/resource/off... I want to spotlight 5 of my fave mobile apps 📱❤️:

while backend/infra folks deal with *too* much telemetry that is SO not the case for our friends in mobile (yet!) as I learned in the latest Off-Call ft. @bidetofevil.wtf but why tho? and what can be done? 👂Listen to find out chronosphere.io/resource/off... #mobile #monitoring #observability

after spending all day editing transcripts I found the perfect little brain break neal.fun/perfect-circ...

🔍 **Optimizing Observability: Sending Only What Matters** *Lessons from a $15,000 log event that delivered 0 value.* 💡 **Every event has a price.** If telemetry isn’t actionable or valuable, it’s not just adding noise—it’s burning money. Here’s how to avoid that trap: ...

💯 my approach to writing talk abstracts totally changed after i realized they who they actually were for

bringing over one of my fave hashtags from mastodon.... #3GoodThings - got my 2y anniversary block from Chronosphere! - getting better at controlling the milk pour for lattes - Norman's new catsle arrived and after he ignored it all day I caught him checking it out in earnest

hello bluesky i'm paige cruz aka paigerduty 📟 ❤️ interests include: #OSS instrumentation, #observability AND monitoring, all fiber arts (esp. spinning and quilting), #SRE, fountain pens, lichen and crows. I blog at paigerduty.com and host a podcast Off-Call offcall.simplecast.com #intro