Weekly Notes 39: In which I caught up on a couple RailsWorld and XOXO 2024 videos (Aaron's, Erin's and Cabel's were especially great but really I liked them all!)
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11 Takeaways from Observability Engineering Book: Summary of the Observability Engineering book that came out of Honeycomb recently
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The Oximeter Query Language: In which Oxide writes a new language for querying metric data
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How we improved availability through iterative simplification: They discuss metrics and logging they send to splunk around api use and performance that sounded simple and pretty cool.
rails world 2024 videos
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Rails World Is So Good: Primeagen reacts to rails world keynote 2024
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Aaron Patterson - Rails World 2024 Closing Keynote: Using a recursive descent parser to speed up rails bootstrap process @ Shopify. Lots of thinking about where memory allocation is happening. (And subsequently gc)
xoxo 2024 videos
I think this year will be the last xoxo conference. I picked a few to watch …
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Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024): How the social internet started, then evolved into something that could harm, but at the same time still allows amazing things to happen between people in communities small and large. We should take an active part in the next evolution of it …
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Molly White, Citation Needed / Web3 Is Going Just Great - XOXO Festival (2024): The web is still underneath all the crud we are currently tolerating from social media, big search engines, and others who want you to think the internet extends no further than their platforms.
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Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024): An disney imagineer and artist is discovered and appreciated anew by Cabel. Lovely!