Toots from 2024-03-04
“At a very high level, the goals of scientific data analysis of distributed systems are the sam…
“At a very high level, the goals of scientific data analysis of distributed systems are the same as for monitoring. We want to collect some metrics and use them to make some pretty graphs. But when you get into the details, three stark differences appear”
https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/introducing-prom2parquet-its-time
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“The idea — to have citizen input processed and responded to by an LLM — is hideous…
“The idea — to have citizen input processed and responded to by an LLM — is hideously toxic and broken; and usefully reveals the kind of thinking that makes morally crippled leaders all across our system love this technology.”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/02/25/Money-AI-Bubble
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“As SREs, our teams are not just responsible for monitoring and toil reduction. We also need to…
“As SREs, our teams are not just responsible for monitoring and toil reduction. We also need to be part of the application architecture discussions to help identify critical dependencies and build mitigation plans, as well as help the software engineers identify potential failures that could bubble up through the system.”
https://medium.com/site-reliability-engineering-leadership/the-domain-of-failure-64bca144c94b
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“The paper is another strong hint that the social aspects of collaborative work not only impact…
“The paper is another strong hint that the social aspects of collaborative work not only impact our well being but do have a significant and measurable impact on our productivity.”
https://robertruzitschka.substack.com/p/we-instead-of-i-the-team-as-the-smallest
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“Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero, we see clearly…
“Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero, we see clearly the future of the internet: a garbage dump.”
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by