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Author here. This decision was more about ease of implementation than anything else. Our internal application logs were already being scooped up by GCP because we run our services …

Yeah, metrics and logs, plus a few other things that depend on these (alerts, SLOs, metric-based dashboards, etc.).

Sure, happy to provide more specifics! Our main issue was the lack of a synchronous gauge. The officially supported asynchronous API of registering a callback function to report a …

Right now, there isn't much duplication of what we're sending to each vendor, so I don't think we'd save a ton by consolidating, at least based on list prices. We could maybe negot…

Thanks! For logs, we actually use github.com/segmentio/events and just implemented a handler for that library that batches logs and periodically flushes them out to our collector u…

Author here, thanks for the question! The current split developed from the personal preferences of the engineers who initially set up our observability systems, based on what they …

I lived on that block for close to 10 years and can confirm that the safety situation around there significantly degraded over the last 1-2 years. Gangs of drug dealers moved in an…

Author here. Just a few clarifications: 1. I have a ton of respect for people who do robotics work. I was trying to be a little humorous/cheeky in my descriptions here. Apologies i…

Author here, thanks for the comment. topicctl is really motivated by a desire to support rigorous, git-based topic management. The read-only views (tailing, repl, etc.) are seconda…

Not yet! But would be happy to look into those and/or get help adding them.