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Like the rest of you, I'm guessing, I snarfed up the notes Martin Fowler published after the Deer Valley unconference on how software is changing in the AI-native era. SO much good stuff. So much food for thought. But the longer I sit with them, the more troubled I am by what it doesn't say. Only one mention of pro…

Props to Clickhouse for saying this, in a sharp essay on how AI is reshaping the observability landscape: "This is the core shift that Charity Majors has been describing as Observability 2.0: replacing the three-pillar model with a single source of truth based on wide structured events stored in a columnar storage…

Yeah, this is interesting. I used to worry about where the AI-ification of all things was going to leave SREs, since it is flattening or collapsing much of the SDLC. But SREs seem to be thriving. They are used to being relentlessly outcome oriented. It's software engineers who loved the art and craft of writing cod…

Like the rest of you, I'm guessing, I snarfed up the notes Martin Fowler published after the Deer Valley unconference on how software is changing in the AI-native era. SO much good stuff. So much food for thought. But the longer I sit with them, the more troubled I am by what it doesn't say. Only one mention of pro…

Yeah, this is interesting. I used to worry about where the AI-ification of all things was going to leave SREs, since it is flattening or collapsing much of the SDLC. But SREs seem to be thriving. They are used to being relentlessly outcome oriented. It's software engineers who loved the art and craft of writing cod…

TIL that when you turn AI-SRE agents loose on your system, and give them access to a bunch of three pillars-style telemetry, they... turn up their noses and refuse to use it. They go back to the source and fetch the raw, pre-digested telemetry data, with all its relationships intact. With thanks to Kyle Forster fo…