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I built a small MCP server that lets any AI agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf) block and wait for a human response before taking irreversible actions. Two tools: - ask_human(…

Problem has never been the storage. Its running those queries to return in milliseconds - if its for a dashboard, an alert of your new AI agent trying to make sense of it.

I wrote this after seeing the same failure modes across multiple teams and metrics stacks. The intent here isn’t to argue that high cardinality is bad but to explain the mechanical…

Wasn't it pascal who said that all of our problems come from our inability to be bored.

I have a different take >Engineers have to pre-define and send all telemetry data they might need – since it’s so difficult to make changes after the fact – regardless of the perce…

Link https://blog.last9.io/sre-tooling-clever-hans-fallacy/

All our monitoring tools enable us to observe what we want to look at. Known knowns. Thus, missing out on the unknown unknowns and being in an endless trial and error state. One at…

I can see this in my inbox too!

The rice farmers I met in Bihar, for instance, are now growing a new variety of flood-tolerant rice—nicknamed “scuba” rice—that can survive two weeks underwater. Found this extreme…