Gonzo lets you see what your OTLP pipeline is actually doing fast, locally, in your terminal. Open source, TUI, single binary, OTLP-native. New GUI features just added. Jon Reeve is doing a lightning talk on it at #ObservabilitySummit Thursday. Check it out. www.controltheory.com/blog/catch-c...

Catch ControlTheory at Observability Summit: Stop Standing Up a Collector Just to Read Your Own Logs

See your OpenTelemetry logs in the terminal — no backend required. Gonzo is an open-source OTLP-native TUI from ControlTheory. Catch the talk May 21.

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Live-tailing AWS CloudWatch logs into a real-time TUI - cool use case for Gonzo www.controltheory.com/blog/gonzo-a... @jreeve.bsky.social @destari.bsky.social #tui

Gonzo: A Better Way to Tail AWS CloudWatch Logs

Explore how to use aws logs tail for effective debugging across your Kubernetes and AWS CloudWatch Logs using Gonzo!

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Starting soon #OpenO11ySummit #OTelDay - a must see, dude - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Taming Metric Cardinality: Practical Cost Reduction With the OpenTelemetry Collector @jreeve.bsky.social @destari.bsky.social

The ControlTheory origin story: it started with a feedback loop, controllability + observability + an extra boost from #OpenTelemetry Shout out to co-founders @bobquillin.bsky.social, @destari.bsky.social, Robert Gordon, and Jon Reeve! www.controltheory.com/blog/control...

ControlTheory Origin Story

"...ControlTheory began with a simple thought: what if we added feedback loops across the observability supply chain? From that basic idea, the impossible becomes possible...In a nutshell, observabili...

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Trust is probably the #1 thing any human has to give and receive.

Wow it’s the 25th anniversary of Y2K where nothing happened because a bunch of us did a metric fuck-ton of work in ‘99 testing and upgrading IT infrastructure systems. Wildest thing I worked on replacing was a CP/M system in a critical role - it booted from 8” floppies, and a VAX with a 9 Track tape

GPU over IP - enables remote use of NVidia GPUs among other things. github.com/kevmo314/scuda

GitHub - kevmo314/scuda: SCUDA is a GPU over IP bridge allowing GPUs on remote machines to be attached to CPU-only machines.

SCUDA is a GPU over IP bridge allowing GPUs on remote machines to be attached to CPU-only machines. - kevmo314/scuda

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Yoda? Is that you? #starwars #yoda #wigwars

Raspberry flavor is nasty.

Using the Otel remote tap processor: www.controltheory.com/resources/ho... #opentelemetry

How to validate, analyze & optimize telemetry using the OTel Collector “Remote Tap Processor” - ControlTheory

As more OpenTelemetry instrumentation is being deployed across our applications and infrastructure, we need ways of understanding the actual payloads of the telemetry being sent and received, so that ...

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I just found out that Dr Jeff Masters (founder of Weather Underground and just a super smart person) is on Bluesky: You should follow him: @drjeffmasters.bsky.social

Absolutely

OMG this one.. sooo good. About the CNCF landscape and how huge it is 😂 #cncf youtu.be/-sZuNEEI6ko?...

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YouTube video by Lil K8s

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Handle my YAML 🤣 #k8s youtu.be/fab1VhvUDrg?...

Handle My Yaml

YouTube video by Lil K8s

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Over Boulder canyon a month or so ago #avgeeks #helicopter #aviation

AI isn’t something to fear until it does your laundry for you.

It is our most modestly priced receptacle. #lebowski

Did you know that Boulder, CO, has a $0.02 per ounce sugar sweetened beverage tax? Means an extra $2.88 for a 12pack of soda.. #co #tmyk #boulder

You can re-hydrate telemetry from S3 with the OpenTelemetry collector, pretty slick! Here’s a write-up from our CPO: www.controltheory.com/resources/se... #opentelemetry #o11y #aws

Sending Telemetry to (& rehydrating from) AWS S3 with the OTel Collector - ControlTheory

Introduction Due to the high cost of ingesting/storing/indexing telemetry associated with many observability solution providers, we’ve noticed a trend across customers where they will restrict retenti...

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If you know helicopters this is actually really funny. Bravo.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2y ago

The two rules of flying a helicopter when you have no idea what you're doing: 1) don't fly fast 2) don't fly slow

Squawk VFR k?

You know, I think what I really want is a social network for only aviation stuff. That’d be cool. #avgeek #aviation

Just.. need.. more.. coffee..

The MD500 is a pretty cool bird. Got to fly this one a while back just for a bit - it’s a nimble beast! #avgeek #aviation #helicopter

There should be a “let me chatgpt that for you” website. Oh there is one.. Letmegpt.com

Let Me GPT That

For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to GPT it for themselves. LMGTFY + GPT = LetMeGPT

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If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving may not be for you. (I’m a retired skydiver) #skydiving

You gotta fail nine times to succeed once. #founder #wisdom

The world in flight (and one particularly visible ground vehicle in eastern Russia).

Nightmare on Helm St: A movie about a guy named Freddie who haunts your deployments. Just when you think it’s safe, crashloopbackoff #badtechjokes

TIL: You can have the weather show up in your menu bar on macOS. System Settings > Control Center > Menu Bar Only > Weather #themoreyouknow #apple #macos