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Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars!
https://charity.wtf/p/have-you-heard-clickhouse-is-winning
Published: July 8, 2026 23:35
Years ago I predicted that columnar storage would remake observability. What I didn't see coming: vendors would build it, nerf it, and sell a worse version back to you as "Datadog, but cheaper"
In defense of AI mandates (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/07/02/in-defense-of-ai-mandates-xpost/
Published: July 2, 2026 19:53
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate might be the best and most honest way to fund it. Crossposted from here. I’ve been writing a series of pieces on lessons learned from our AI journey at Honeycomb. I’ve written…
Make AI Boring Again (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/06/24/make-ai-boring-again-xpost/
Published: June 24, 2026 19:57
On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for Crossposted from here.  I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot. Because of this, I have never been inclined to block people who argue with me…
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/06/15/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline-not-less-xpost/
Published: June 15, 2026 05:38
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what’s happening now. Crossposted from AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less. A few days back I wrote a…
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy (xpost)
Published: June 2, 2026 21:33
Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. There is a way to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.. Xposted from substack. I recently attended a talk where one…
Your Data is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) (xpost)
Published: March 9, 2026 22:10
Your Data Is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) In logs as in life, the relationships are the most important part. AI doesn’t fix this. It makes it worse. (cross-posted) After twenty years of devops, most software engineers still…
My (hypothetical) SRECon26 keynote (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/03/03/my-hypothetical-srecon26-keynote-xpost/
Published: March 3, 2026 01:06
My (hypothetical) SRECon26 keynote One year ago, Fred Hebert and I delivered the closing keynote at SRECon25. Looking back on it now, I can hardly connect with how I felt then. Here’s what I’d say one year later. Crossposted from here. Hey, it’s almost…
First I wrote the wrong book, then I wrote the right book (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/02/19/first-i-wrote-the-wrong-book-then-i-wrote-the-right-book-xpost/
Published: February 19, 2026 03:35
I’m not sure whether to say “thank you” or “HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME”, but this one goes out to all the people who sent me advice on buying software last fall. This is the second in a two-part episode. The first part ended on a ✨cliffhanger!!!✨ — so if…
“Observability Engineering”: a book so nice, we wrote it twice (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/02/18/observability-engineering-a-book-so-nice-we-wrote-it-twice-xpost/
Published: February 18, 2026 02:42
“In which Martin Fowler gives me exactly the right advice at exactly the wrong time, we assemble a rogues gallery of technical contributors, and the second edition is off to print.” Originally posted here. Last week I got to meet Martin Fowler for the…
Bring Back Ops Pride (xpost)
https://charity.wtf/2026/01/19/bring-back-ops-pride-xpost/
Published: January 19, 2026 02:11
Cross-posted from “Bring Back Ops Pride“ “Operations” is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can’t write code. May those who shit on ops get the operational outcomes they deserve. I was planning to write something else today,…