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paigerduty, 12 days ago to random

when you hear the term "monitoring debt" what comes to mind?

#monitoring #observability #o11y #prometheus #OpenTelemetry #sre

ifthenelse, 2 months ago to devops

When I talk to other techies, it's so disturbing how regularly they get paged. They have to sleep on the couch when on-call, figure out how not to scare their children with the sound of PagerDuty, and not be able to go shopping without fear of being paged.
Companies, please fix this, for God's sake!
#sre #devops

simon, 5 months ago to random

Nasty example here of a prompt injection data exfiltration attack against writer.com - made much worse by Writer's response to the responsible disclosure of the vulnerability that "We do not consider this to be a security issue since the real customer accounts do not have access to any website."

https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-writercom

I wrote more notes on this here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/15/writercom-indirect-prompt-injection/

thekiwisre, 5 months ago to random

This week on Slight Reliability @paigerduty is back! This time we dive into sampling of distributed traces. We cover...

🕸️ What is distributed tracing? What are spans?
🧪 What is sampling? And why do we need it?
🤯 What constitutes an interesting trace?
🦘 No sampling VS head based VS tail based
👩🏾‍🔬 Non-traditional use cases of tracing such as CI/CD
🧻 The power of napkin math to make informed decisions
...and much more.

#SRE #observability #SlightReliability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwjeE9reb8

simon, 6 months ago to random

At OpenAI DevDay, a ton of new stuff:

• gpt-4-turbo (128,000 tokens, faster, cheaper)
• Ability to pass a seed and get repeatable outputs (maybe we can finally write some automated tests!)
• Can actually produce valid JSON now - plus call multiple functions in one response
• Text to speech API (6 voices)
• Whisper v3 (open model release)
• Fine tuning for gpt-3.5-turbo 16k (and preview access for GPT-4)

simon, 9 months ago to random

Just stumbled across https://github.com/pypi-diff via a GitHub code search for a keyword in one of my projects

"Daily generated diffs for pypi package releases"

How could that possibly fit in a repo on GitHub? They have a soft limit of around 1-5GB per repo...

Turns out pypi-diff creates a brand new repo for each day to store the diffs from that day!

Looks like it's been running since April - I wonder how long it can keep going like this https://abbbi.github.io/pypidiff/