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Name your cave this week. The one metric you've quietly not been measuring. Pick the one with the too-ready excuse. Put one crude panel on it. If you flinch when you look, you found the right one.
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1/ There's a dashboard I avoided building for about a year. The cost-per-request board for a service I already suspected was bad. This one's about why I kept finding reasons not to look.
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7/ I'd had it backwards. I was treating the scary number as the reward for finishing the real work. It wasn't downstream of the work. It was the work.
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8/ Name your cave this week. One metric you've been avoiding. Put one crude panel on it. If you flinch when you look, that flinch is the treasure telling you where it's buried. masteringobservability.com/m…
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Eighteen months of drafts. Now a real object on the table. Metrics & Mayhem, in print. #author #BookLaunch
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There's a dashboard I avoided building for about a year. The cost-per-request board I already suspected was carrying a bad number. Every team has a cave. The part of the system nobody instruments because they're afraid of what it'll say. New Signal Drop: masteringobservability.com/m…
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After 2 years I actually have a release book, free chapter available would love feedback. #observability #BookSpotlight masteringobservability.com/m…
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The keynotes say autonomous operations have arrived. The Bank of England says 2% of AI use cases in financial services are fully autonomous. That gap is not slowness. In a bank, the ceiling on automation is accountability, not technology. masteringobservability.com/p…
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The keynotes say autonomous operations have arrived. The Bank of England says 2% of AI use cases in financial services are fully autonomous. That gap is not slowness. In a bank, the ceiling on automation is accountability, not technology. New piece: masteringobservability.com/p…
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Recovery times got worse anyway. Complexity is now the top concern. The thing bought for clarity became the thing causing confusion. The count of tools was never the problem. Ownership is. That's the book. amzn.eu/d/05JpryYx #observability #SRE
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