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I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU…

It's at least the second one that Akamai's done, although I like this newest one the most. The old one was: https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/products/E459561-000/00

You are correct — wide events are essentially equivalent to structured logs. Charity Majors says as much in her blog post linked at the top of this article. > The building block of…

Similar article from Brendan Gregg a few years back: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-aver...

I've really enjoyed working for Linode. We're a smaller company (~250 people total), but work on a global scale. I've found the work to be challenging but rewarding, leadership to …

Banner (and Ellucian) is my trigger word.

Surprised to see Prometheus hasn't been mentioned yet, and even Nagios is being mentioned as a better alternative. My company (higher-ed, ~100k combined students/fac/staff) is desp…

Really enjoyed this write-up. I'm currently in the process of scaling out a Prometheus-based replacement for an old Nagios setup that was scaled to its limit and posts like this ju…

Exact same experiences here. As soon as I start to develop a sleep deficit, all those negative feelings come racing back.

The accessibility to executives is something I've noticed even just working on contracts with Top Hat. I am surprised at the level of engagement that your VPs and C-suite execs hav…

I'm not involved in the curriculum development side of things, so I don't have much input into that. And prior to the implementation of Top Hat, our students had all been using phy…

Disclosure: I work for a large University (combined residential+online presence of ~100k) and we have contracts with Pearson, McGraw, Cengage, and Top Hat. Top Hat has been surpris…