Simon Aronsson
@simme.dev
Observability aficionado helping you prevent your đź’» from going đź’Ą. Currently at Canonical, previously at Grafana, k6, HiQ.
A vector database full of stale tickets and decisions that only happened in Slack is not institutional memory. It is archaeology with better search. New post on documentation, intent debt, and why writing is now infrastructure: simme.dev/posts/the-en...
The end of "Just ask Sarah"
Sarah is the person who knows why a service was split, why an abstraction exists, why a strange constraint shaped the current design, and why the obvious fix was rejected three quarters ago.
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If a senior engineer's code is above criticism, you don't have code review. You have approval theater. Boring code is an organizational symptom, and the codebase gives it away. simme.dev/posts/boring... #softwareengineering #ai
Boring code is an organizational tell
Simon Aronsson — software engineer
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I just published a blog post on an experiment I did with building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector. It's a work in progress, and was mainly built to scratch my own itch, but nonetheless -- enjoy! ubuntu.com/blog/buildin... #observability #otel #o11y #sre
Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector | Ubuntu
Teams continuously deploy programmable telemetry pipelines to production, without having access to a dry-run mode. At the same time, most organizations lack staging environments that resemble producti...
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