Cash benchmarking as a standard for #charity giving. “unless you have a plausible story about why a charity outperforms just giving the beneficiaries some money, you shouldn’t do it.” #EA
on 02026-04-07#Charity is not a fan of no-deploy Fridays. “If you are a software company, shipping code is your heartbeat. Shipping code should be as reliable and sturdy and fast and unremarkable as possible, because this is the drumbeat by which value gets delivered to your org.
Every time your production pipeline stops, it is a heart attack. It should not be ok to go around nonchalantly telling people to halt the lifeblood of their systems based on something as pedestrian as the day of the week.”
on 02025-11-05#Charity’s retrospective #introduction to #observability in 02021. “The world doesn’t need another classification word for existing data types. And it doesn’t need another synonym for “telemetry” or “insights.” But there is a coherent set of practices that started to emerge about five years ago, in response to changes in how we build modern systems — particularly microservices. Those practices are a fairly discontinuous leap from their heritage of using metrics and logs. In fact, some of the best practices are exactly opposite those of monitoring, and the respective data formats used are entirely incompatible. Those practices do need a word.”
on 02021-11-11