And now I'm at ObservabilityCon on the road, which is unfortunately keynoted by @RichiH-- Debian developer, insufferable German Deutschbag, my recurring HausGuest, and non-ironically one of my dearest friends.
Don't let my sarcasm fool you; he's one of the smartest people you'll meet, who thinks deeply when he's not terrorizing me by sending me truly enormous teddy-bears.
He's describing cost control as an engineering discipline, not as a performative "Frugality" that requires stuffing people into dog crates as a corporate travel policy.
"I challenge you to find another vendor that not only makes its cost drivers transparent and easy to understand, but also invests heavily in your ability to pay us less."
Hitting hard on the theme of how important it is to make observability easy to use. It resonates; your product can be amazing but if you've gotta have a decade of engineering experience you're gonna see some adoption issues in the market.
Talking about eBPF to avoid the need to instrument your code. This is good; I see application instrumentation struggling to gain priority in an awful lot of companies. Letting the SRE-types do it without application dev buy-in is a good plan.
Now Manoj Acharya, VP of Eng at Grafana, takes the stage to provide a delightful pleasant contrast to the dour German delivery we've been subject to until now.
Now @RichiH is talking about AI + ML, something he hasn't mentioned this entire trip because he knows I'd have thrown him out of my guest room and into the street.