Just after 1400 today I set up a 10s loop that grabs the homepage of the mesostic app. Neat to see it show up in the span duration graph, and how it pulls up the durations for other spans.
Just after 1400 today I set up a 10s loop that grabs the homepage of the mesostic app. Neat to see it show up in the span duration graph, and how it pulls up the durations for other spans.
System Administration, Week 1: UNIX History
We're borrowing this video from our "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" class to give a brief summary of the history of the UNIX family of operating systems.

Oh and trying to keep OTEL top-of-mind as well, cascading traces!
Obviously our highest latency is the call to NASA. :p
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Imagen creada con IA.
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Agents enter the room.
Quick! What do you do?
..
(Don't look at me.)
Agents are non-embodied actors in human systems.
Agents receive context as input.
Agents decide, execute, loop.
Agents reduce complexity.
Until the END.
Who pays the embodied cost of AI-driven sense-making?
And why is it never the systems that scale it?
I write about language, technology and human systems.
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System Administration, Week 1: Core Principles
In this video, we present a few core principles that will guide us throughout the semester: Scalability, Security, and Simplicity. We'll also get to know a few basic "laws", well known by any System Administrator. If you're wondering what all this has to do with Legos, please tune in...

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