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this might be my favorite blog post we've ever done. on how we serverless'd our databas^Wstorage engine, by @ianwilkes. honeycomb.io/blog/secondary…
@Ianwilkes a bunch of you loved @samstokes's talk two years ago at strangeloop, on the distributed column store we wrote to support all the crazy ass shit we let you do with data at @honeycombio.

ian is the chief engineer of said craziness. enjoy.
@Ianwilkes @samstokes @honeycombio ok while i'm at it i also gave a @paperswelovenyc talk a while back, on the scuba whitepaper from facebook that inspired us in the early days.

(warning: lots of giggles, a little tipsy and a lot ranty iirc)
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Charity Majors
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I predict that ... by the end of 2020, the technical definition of observability will no longer be subject to hedging or fudging or any true debate.

Monitoring tools will be shamed into calling themselves monitoring tools once again. Some (not all) monitoring teams will too.
I am kinda surprised how immune the industry has been to the monitoring and logging companies' dogged efforts to crawl under the observability blankie and insist that o11y == telemetry.

These active efforts to confuse the market are annoying. But I expect they are nearly over.
The main reason they've been able to do it this long is that ... @honeycombio is still the only observability tool out there, the only one that meets the technical bar for debugging unknown-unknowns.

(That technical bar and detailed explanation is here: honeycomb.io/blog/so-you-wa…)
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Charity Majors
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Sorry kid; you're fucked. Tracing is the single most cost effective investment you can make with that many services. Anyone you hire will just be cannon fodder.

That said, they are not wrong to be wary of the typical big bang deployment. Not for cost reasons, but whatever --
-- they're keying in on something real, so let's not sweat the rest. What you need to do is bootstrap a solution compelling enough to convert the unbelievers.

You need to:

✅ solve a problem that is currently intractable
✅ swiftly (an hour or two)
✅ cheaply (free? 🤞)
Fortunately, I can help. 🤗

First, go download this paper. (Btw, if anyone complains about the email gate I will take that as a request to block you so that all my future FREE ADVICE need not offend your precious lil eyes) info.honeycomb.io/guide-path-fro…
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Charity Majors
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We are hiring an experienced finance/ops type person at @honeycombio. More details from @jeffgraySF (who has been helping us out these past few months) at linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…. Please pass along to anyone you think is a good fit! 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
When @DBMahon started working at honeycomb as our vp marketing, it weirded her out at first that all the engineers were hanging out in #marketing and chiming in. 🥰

It's a firm tenet of our company culture: biz and eng roles are valued and respected equally. 🌷
We pay attention during the eng interview process for any signs of snobbery or exoticisation. We value people who know that other roles are just as hard and critical as theirs.

(Doesn't *seem* like a high bar, now does it? lol)
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chrismunns
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Following the news around a certain large tech company's conference this week and their numerous k8s announcements furthers my view that #serverless is the future of things. 1/
And by #serverless i mean highly abstracted, almost entirely managed, cloud-based services. I'll give you Fargate, but not lower down the stack from that 2/
I've said for a while now that k8s is the last hill for traditional Ops/IT to die on. above that on the stack is basically all things serverless. So every traditional IT vendor in the world catering to this is their deathknell as well. They become bottled into this dead end 3/
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Josh Koenig
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In addition to #serverless (see link), my other new favorite piece of hashtag-compliant vocabulary for Pantheon is #WebOps

Let me explain.

The default short-hand for what we do is, of course, "hosting." The dreaded H-word. It's part of our story for sure, but it misses out on the value Pantheon provides.

It's an incomplete "what" that thoroughly misses out on the "why."
Don't get me wrong. Hosting is super important, and if your hosting setup is bad or broken, it's really hard to see past it.

A burning platform is an all-consuming emergency. If that's your situation you should call us; we can help!
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Jeremy Daly
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I've been spending a lot of time lately with @dynamodb in my #serverless applications, so I thought I'd share my surefire guide to migrating to it from #RDBMS. So here is…

How to switch from RDBMS to #DynamoDB in *20* easy steps… (a thread)
STEP 1: Accept the fact that Amazon.com can fit 90% of their retail site/system’s workloads into DynamoDB, so you probably can too. 🤔
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Paul Johnston
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"Serverless scaling" in this context means it can scale from zero to *concurrency limit*. That's fine... sort of. But to be truly #serverless you need..

... rapid cold starts

At present, Cloud Run cold starts are too long (unless I'm missing something) to be truly serverless
Yes, it depends on the underlying container here and yes the developer is responsible for that but even the "Hello World" takes too long for me (well over a second).

In the Lambda world it is in the few hundreds of ms for a well written usable function (even over API Gateway).
Yes I'm holding it to a higher standard. It doesn't mean it's not usable though. I think it has real promise. Lots of opportunity to build some amazing solutions with it.

Things you should not do: dump existing containers into it ... KNOW YOUR TOOLS!
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Gal Bashan
@BashanGal
#serverless advocates - we are doing something wrong. I have been putting this off for a long time but I really think it is important and has to be said. Warning: LONG thread.
The trigger for this thread was a talk I gave at #DevOpsDays Edinburgh. It wasn't the talk per-say, but the whole conference experience (which was awesome, but that's a topic for another thread).
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