Linklog 2025-08-03
roundup of links I've read/watched/etc and want to share
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On Describing Not Explaining
this past weekend a mysterious sound that came from somewhere behind and above the living room interrupted movie night... unfortunately for me and my partner this was during The Bourne Identity, an action-thriller that had heightened our sense of paranoia 😬 obvi we immediately paused the movie and took
What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems
Resources Here's handier links to the resources mentioned in my SRECon NA Lightning Talk! Stop Blaming - Sidney Dekker One on One SRE - Amy Tobey Storytelling as an Incident Management Skill - Laura de Vesine The VOID Report Off-Call: SRE is Ops With Boundaries There's No Place
KubeCon '24 (Paige's Picks)
A Note Unfortunately I had a change of plans and am missing out on this year's KubeCon I am so very grateful to my team for taking over my O11y Day lightning talk and shifts at the booth ❤️ If there's 1 thing I plan
Celebrating 2y as a Chronaut
In the summer of 2022 I started working for Chronosphere as a developer advocate and 2 years later I'm still here!
🧳 Trip Report: OpenSearchCon '24
Last week I was in SF for OpenSearchCon and had a blast! Of all the conferences, and trade shows I attend (which is oh-so-many as a developer advocate) open source events are my absolute fave, the community and camaraderie make for a great atmosphere 💙 Keynote Jim Zemlin
The Art of Asking (Others) 1/5
When joining a new project or onboarding to a new organization we are often told some variation of “there are no dumb questions” and encouraged to ask away. I appreciate the intention and wholeheartedly agree with the spirit of this saying - that you are not expected to know
OTel Community Day '24
OTel Community Day - great vibes, small intimate sessions, virtually none of the sensory overload that comes with mega-confs like KubeCon.
Experience Report: Running the OTel Demo Locally on K8s
Below is my experience report on getting the OTel Demo up and running on my mac. This is NOT intended as a tutorial to follow verbatim but to share lessons learned along the way and my field notes.
📟 SRECon Americas ❤️
2024 marked the 10th year of SRECon and the 20th year for SRE as a profession. For me it marks my 2-year anniversary retiring from SRE and I wondered how much had changed and if I could still resonate and relate to the SRE experience...
What’s the biggest unsolved problem within Site Reliability Engineering?
What’s the biggest unsolved problem within Site Reliability Engineering? Paiges take.
Meat Based Monitoring
Meat based monitoring is a hilarious name for a serious situation. I reflect on a time when I became the meat-based monitor for a major hotel chain.
2023 Year in GIFs
To stay organized I keep a running list of what I've done, meetings attended and work in flight, mostly for me, partly for my manager who lives many many many timezones away. To spice it up and make the doc feel more...paige...I start each week'
Semi-Belated SysAdvent Roundup
today we are swimming in a sea of AI-generated, SEO-gamified, and/or generally terri-bad filler content to sate the non-stop content machine. Lately I have been leafing through content from years back, even before "my time", like SysAdvent which ran from 2008-2021. Enjoy 25 of my favorite past posts
Cute Tech Stocking Stuffers*
*some of these items won't fit in a stocking 🤷 There is no shortage of techie gift guides out there but most are aimed at the "stereotypical" developer with very little appealing to my interests and tastes..so I made my own! There's no