Cache Me Not, Cache Me, Cache Me Not

Long running spans are one of my biggest “we don’t really actually have a good standard solution for this” issues in opentelemetry. They’re something I’ve run into before, weirdly frequently, and especially so when attempting to try and instrument front-end or mobile facing systems.It turns out, though, that the issues here with long running...

When going on an observability journey, there tends to be a few concrete phases that every company goes through. Understanding how those unfold and take shape as you mature your observability practices can help you identify when you’ll run into certain types of challenges, and when you’ll start really wanting certain tools and practices to help...

I like to home roll abstractions, but commoditize implementations.What I mean by that is a fairly simple rule that has a very powerful effect, but can be tricky to find the right balance.Home rolling the abstraction, to me, means deeply exploring and fleshing out out an abstraction from whole cloth, whether it be an interface, or a mental model,...

I thought today about why I do what I do.When I was a child, I yearned very deeply to be seen and recognized for who I truly was. I didn’t quite realize the cause of this, or reason. I couldn’t have articulated it had I tried. Nevertheless, it was there.However, though I tried desperately, nobody ever saw me or recognized me, and so I grew up...

One of the hardest things for people to understand with distributed systems is that eventual consistency is the same thing as eventual inconsistency. The very same pattern that lets you non atomically deal with things also ensures that eventually you’ll have a system that doesn’t match your understanding. Resources will go stale, things will go...