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Carrots, sticks, and making things worse
3 Oct 2024 | original ↗

This post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting ecosystem. And of course there are more, like time, quality, effort, or how...

My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
2 Sept 2024 | original ↗

From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere.After launching my notes section, I had to fully clean up my engine. I thought I could write about how it works...

The Review Is the Action Item
30 May 2024 | original ↗

I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen.This is not surprising advice if you’ve read material from the LFI community and related disciplines. However, there are specific perspectives...

A Commentary on Defining Observability
19 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the context of software organizations (well, not only software organizations, but the examples tilt that way).I agree with...

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