(This article originally appeared on The Observatory) On my blog Absolutely simple infrastructure monitoring, I wrote: Depending on your background, the process of instrumenting your applications, systems, and even your coffee pot makes…
In-Person Events, Reloaded
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) (This post is NOT a review of FutureStack as an event, or the recent announcements from New Relic. For that, you can check out this post. Rather,…
Absolutely simple infrastructure monitoring
(This article originally appeared on The Observatory) Depending on your background, the process of instrumenting your applications, systems, and even your coffee pot makes perfect sense. Requests to “pipe this curl command…
Develop a Sense of Code
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) The more the counter next to my years-in-tech metric increments upward, the more I find myself in situations where I talk about career path, skill decisions,…
Who Are We Helping?
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) It’s hard to deny the truth that for a lot of us “difficult” means “good,” and “more difficult” is “even better.” From video games to exercise…
Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) Recently, I was asked to write an article on “How to Convince your Boss to Prioritize Observability.” You can read it here. As I was pulling it…
Making the Case for Observability (to your boss)
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) One of the things the other Developer Relations Advocates here at New Relic and I often hear from customers is, “Even though I understand why observability is important,…
Why OpenTelemetry Should Matter to Network and Systems Admins
(This article originally appeared on HackerNoon) OpenTelemetry is young, even by internet standards. Born out of the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), its lofty…
CNCF Annual Survey Report Review: The state of cloud and Kubernetes
(This post originally appeared on The Observatory) If there was one thing that struck me from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Annual Survey Report, it’s simply how far Kubernetes has come in…
You’re More Than Your Title
(This post originally appeared on The Observatory) Do me a favor? Pop open another tab and start a new email. If you’re like most IT practitioners, you’ve included—along with your name, email,…