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Post I wrote on @honeycombio, on why counting incidents is not a useful target (though a possibly useful signal).
Your objectives should be things you can do, not events you wish do not happen.
You hope that forest fires don’t happen, but there’s only so much that prevention can do. Likewise with incidents. You want to know that your response is adequate. And you want to have a systemic perspective that's actually useful in guiding work.
“It turns out that past a certain point, increasing reliability is worse for a service (and its users) rather than better! Extreme reliability comes at a cost: maximizing stability limits how fast new features can be developed and how quickly products can be delivered to users, and dramatically increases their cost, which in turn reduces the numbers of features a team can afford to offer.”
"SRE == therapy for systems"
Do you agree?
This is just one of the fun little nuggets that has come out of our chats with our OCMM Season 2 guests! Are you getting excited?
#ocmmPodcast #podcasting #techpodcast #sre #sitereliabilityengineering
Coming up next week! Fresh discussions with maintainers & other people implementing OpenTelemetry in production at this month's OpenTelemetry End User Discussion Group sessions:
- EMEA: Jan 17, 11AM CET (GMT +1)
- APAC: Jan 18, 11AM IST (India)
- AMER: Jan 19, 9AM PST
Find the Zoom links here: https://opentelemetry.io/community/end-user/discussion-group/
On the 12th day of #o11ydays my true love gave to me:
Twelve tracers tracing
Eleven metrics counting
Ten custom queries
Nine deploy markers
Eight what is different?
Seven is this normal?
Six what is broken?
Five SLOs
Four bottlenecks
Three waterfalls
Two service maps
and Honeycomb Observability!
Thanks @jessitron for the fun lyrics.
As we take our first steps into the fediverse, we are wondering - are there specific things you'd like to see from us?
Obviously we plan to keep posting about #observability & #OpenTelemetry, with our usual meanderings into engineering management & #devops. And you'll never pry us away from #hugops or snark.
Also: if you're wondering why we followed you here, it's because you were following us on Twitter and we wanted you to know we were here!
We found 1000 of our Twitter followers on Mastodon.
It struck us that this could make an interesting anecdotal snapshot of which technical instances #observability #sre #devops folks flock to.
23% on hachyderm.io
4.5% on infosec.exchange
2.8% on fosstodon.org
1.3% on techhub.social
1.3% on indieweb.social
1.3% on ruby.social
0.9% on tech.lgbt
0.9% on macaw.social
0.8% on awscommunity.social
0.6% on discuss.systems
The other 62.5% are on smaller tech servers or general topic servers.
Happy o11ydays from us to you!
We’ve got some fun and festive o11y treats for you, so be sure to sleigh ride into this blog to learn how you can make the cool heatmap art you've seen us post, and maybe get an awesome o11y gift!
And while we originally wrote this with LinkedIn and Twitter in mind, if you follow the submission instructions on Mastodon we will also send you fun stuff :)
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/happy-o11ydays
#o11ydays #o11y #opentelemetry #testinprod #honeycomb #observability
Don't mind us, just deploying a new channel three days before the winter holidays, like you do.
Fred Hebert
Andrew Eisenberg
On-Call Me Maybe Podcast
