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Infinidash: AWS’s New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner

By Corey Quinn

Infinidash: AWS’s New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner AWS has just released something fascinating in the form of CloudWatch Omni. I want to be upfront before I dive further: “CloudWatch Omni” is a wretched name that I will not be using, so for the rest of this article and the […]

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Reading Observability Tools? That’s a Robot’s Job

By Corey Quinn

Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters and the people in the room are the ones who would know. I used that slot to argue that the primary reader of your telemetry is no longer a human, and […]

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S3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There’s One In Front of It)

By Corey Quinn

I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up before they went back to their FUSE monstrosities. It was one of those reliable truths […]

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