What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, splendiferous, spectacular month this has been! (Bonus points for those who know what supercalifragilisticexpialidocious means ??) It’s been a tiring month, but also an infinitely rewarding one. Phew! May was all about ‘High Cardinality’, and for some of us after a long day/night at work, it was High on Cardhunality ??
We finished this year’s Indian Premiere League in spectacular style.
What a nail-biting finish the match was.
Just when you thought it was all over…
Delirium. Absolute chaos.
A friend almost broke the TV, crackers were burst across the city. Fairy tale endings are real, and while everyone was glued to their TV screens, the good people at Last9 were glued to their laptop screens ??. Reliability to the last T.
Why were we glued to our laptop screens? Well, here’s a fun microsite understanding and explaining everything about “Cricket Scale” ??
- You obviously know about the raging topic of the month - The internet went berserk with the claim that Amazon’s Prime video team moved from microservices to a monolith; thereby reducing their infra costs by 90%. But… did they? You tell us ???Story here
- There’s no way in hell a company is paying $65 million a quarter to DataDog. O11y is all costs, and that is bonkers. Story here
- A fun thread on o11y vendors as Met Gala celebs - here.
- Can ChatGPT pick better stocks than hedge funds? Someone decided to give it $50,000 to see. Follow the drama here
- Someone used Stable Diffusion to re-create assets in the iconic Age of Empires game. How many of y’all play this iconic game? ME. More here
- Did you know that Open AI is tracking their uptime? You can check it out here
- A detailed, incisive, analytical breakdown on Twitter’s uptimes - here
- You know that thing about o11y being all about costs? Or about that org that’s getting $65 million a quarter from a company. Well, crazy numbers there. What we need is someone who sits between the two extremes of Open Source Software, and the Paid closed vendors.What does a managed service looks like? My colleague maps out the o11y ecosystem, and what needs to change. Story here
- Or, you want a quick snippet, read his tweetstorm
- What do self-driving cars tell us about Reliability engineering? What are the ‘Levels’ the SRE world needs to navigate through? A post on where we stand, and where want to head. Read here
- How do Engineering, Product and Customer Success teams look at Reliability? A good segway into confirmation bias, and delving deep into the mindset of different personas. Read here
- How to filter metrics by labels using OpenTelemetry Collector? here
- It’s all about High Cardinality and 12yoCardhu this month. So it doesn’t hurt to have an Explain It Like I’m 5 on everything to do with Cardinality. here
- Metrics vs Events vs Logs vs Traces - Understanding MELT in o11y. here
- o11y is a practice, not a job - here
And that’s a wrap on this week’s edition!
Oh, before i forget, we have a Substack featuring ‘A day in the life of an SRE’. Lots of stories from folks and what they’re up to. Do check it out - here
You can also join our?Discord, where we hang out with like-minded SREs and DevOps folks to discuss all things Observability and Reliability. We call it the?Last9 of Reliability ??
Come across any interesting o11y stories? Tell us? Leave a comment ??
