Epistemic Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI Speed
AI makes drafting cheap. The bill arrives later as review load, churn, security risk, and epistemic debt. The teams that win treat AI like an intern: fast, useful, and never unsupervised.
Failing Fast
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The Economic & Environmental Costs of AI Coding
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Listen to me on the Day 2 Cloud podcast
I was invited to chat with the Packet Pushers folk on 'OpenTelemetry – Getting From Visibility To Observability With Ben Hall'. Looks like I pushed a show that's typically around 40 minutes long, over an hour for my guest appearance. Hope it's a good listen and you learn something new, audience!
OpenTelemetry, The Missing Ingredient
At its core, OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a vendor-neutral standard for telemetry. But it also provides a complete end-to-end implementation for generating, emitting, collecting, processing and exporting telemetry data to any support observability back-end.
The Modern Observability Problem
The observability problem - Why is the system exhibiting this behaviour?
\`Charbonneau Loops\’ and government IT contracting
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GitOps with Terraform, GitHub and Azure
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Manual Docker Setup on Windows
An alternative using WSL 2, where Docker Desktop is not available to you in Windows