Next up at #velocityconf its the one and only @jaqx0r - Google SRE extraordinaire on how best to monitor with SLO’s The cost of maintenance of a system must scale sublinearly with the growth of the service - #velocityconf

At Google, Ops work needs to be less than 50% of the total work done by SRE

The distributed real time telemetry challenge at NS1

- 5-700K data points per sec
- avg of 200K data points per second (terabytes per day)
- why an OpenTSDB approach failed (DDOS attack mitigation required more granular telemetry and per packet inspection)
- why ELK made sense “Given all the problems we had, we decided that we needed to pick a tool that had a solid community behind it. We wanted to gain from a flourishing community and wanted to contribute back” - why ELk was chosen as a long term time series database at @NS1

I'm at the developing developers event at Asana now.

It's for managers really and I'm not a manager nor ever want to be one - but came here for the unicorn stickers.

But if you're here and want to say, find me. 😃 I literally know no one at this event. "My career consists of mostly throwing myself into chaos" -- @mipsytipsy at the developing developers event for managers

"I'm now the accidental CEO of a company" 😃

Passion isn't a binary. It's a state of mind. Let's stop pretending there are "passionate" people and those who aren't. There have been times I've felt incredibly "passionate" about certain technologies. And there have been times I've felt super low.