Mike Heffner

@mike.heffner.io

AI Mechanic - Cursor Previously: Rotel.dev @ Streamfold, Netlify, SolarWinds Cloud, Librato. Just add water.

Hello future GitHubber! Know that this HTML response will be vomited upon all failures regardless of client, API, or request type surface from now until eternity. So keep it tight.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

The past 7 months @ramond.bsky.social and I have worked on the hypothesis that telemetry data requires a systems approach for high-perf, predictable and resource efficient collection at scale. We're excited to announce our progress so far and hope that the community can join us: dub.sh/A7sI0Tm

Rotel: Fast and Efficient OpenTelemetry Collection in Rust | Rotel

Observability shouldn't be a resource hog, that’s why at the end of last year, we started an ambitious new project – Rotel. We’ve been excited to see the rise of OpenTelemetry as a vendor neutral stan...

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Excellent article on positioning domain engineering between product engineering and infrastructure engineering. I fully agree with the financial model section. However, I prefer to call it ‘platform engineering: the hard parts,’ simply because in the middle, we face more volatile semantics.

Infrastructure Gravity & Domain Engineering | Jack Danger

The following is an excerpt from Executive Engineering.   “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in The Little Prince   Each company draws its own ...

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