Platform Engineering Day: Let the Platform Build Itself: Using AI To Construct an Internal Developer Platform With CNCF Tools
Observability Day: How to Trust a Liar: Instrumenting AI Execution with OpenTelemetry
Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day: This Lying Has to Stop: Keeping AI Honest with OpenTelemetry
AI Tools Lab: Real-Time Telemetry in Development: Using MCP and Datadog for AI-Assisted Coding
Atlanta ♫
eBook Contributor: Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem
CNCF Blog: Code-Level Telemetry Instrumentation: From “Oh Hell No” to “Worth It”
🌩️ Thunder: Observability 2.0 with OpenTelemetry: Make Signals Work Together
At the poll today the line was sooooooo long. Maybe 70 people! Every single parking spot in the big library lot was filled.
I vote in every election, and I’ve never seen it like this.
Today I did some self-reflection using Claude, and it told me this:
“Most people who can build elaborate demo automation scripts and understand Kubernetes attack vectors don’t also write code comments about spider mouth anatomy being ‘unholy nightmare fuel.’”
Hahaha. I feel seen.
Pixie: Instant Kubernetes Visibility with eBPF
Pixie is an observability tool that collects data from your applications without any instrumentation. ᕙ(`▽´)ᕗ In this new 🌩️ Thunder episode, Michelle Nguyen, a Pixie maintainer, explains how Pixie uses eBPF to capture network traffic, resource metrics, and CPU profiles while keeping sensitive data safely in-cluster and queries end-to-end encrypted. Watch the full 14-minute 🌩️ Thunder here: https://youtu.be/hZ-a72ggR1M
On this beautiful, lazy Saturday morning, I’ve been exploring digital journaling and tools like Obsidian. Does anyone have a digital journaling flow they especially like?
Cows, Tech Careers, Working at Microsoft, and Even More About Cows, with Saad Ansari
It is a new episode of the Software Defined Interviews Podcast! In this one we talk a lot about cows.
Personal Blog: Code-Level Telemetry Instrumentation: From “Oh Hell No” to “Worth It”
Code-Level Telemetry Instrumentation: From "Oh Hell No" to "Worth It"
Code instrumentation shouldn’t be a favor that developers do for platform engineers, it should be a platform feature that empowers developers with insight into their running applications and the surrounding system.
My first-ever harvest of home-grown sprouts! This has the potential to be a long-lasting habit.
Software Defined Interviews: The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies
Here are a few favorite moments from my last day in Scotland. The People’s Story Museum was especially compelling. It showcases the lives of ordinary working people in Edinburgh, from the 18th century to just a few years ago. A museum about regular people! Imagine that!
Highland cows live up to the hype.