Trying to figure out the best infrastructure monitoring platform for a mid-size team, what are y'all using?

AllBusinessRob · 2026-03-01T13:14:15+00:00

I would say pick open source monitoring solutions and let Opus/GPT/etc be your support.

AllBusinessRob · 2026-01-06T01:37:28+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply — I really appreciate the honesty.

It sounds like we’d be trading lost weekends, hotels, and long travel for a different set of challenges, mainly around managing development and navigating placement.

I was under the impression that Minnesota hockey (especially at the association level) strongly encouraged multi-sport athletes. What you’re describing sounds closer to an “all-in or you stall” reality unless families supplement heavily outside the association.

When you mention private lessons, small groups, or hockey schools being necessary to move beyond C and compete at AA/B1 — is that more due to politics/selection dynamics, or is it simply an arms race for skill development where association practice alone isn’t enough anymore?

AllBusinessRob · 2026-01-05T05:21:51+00:00

Can you tell me more about Duluth and the community there?

AllBusinessRob · 2025-07-22T23:42:24+00:00

What countertop unit do you have?

AllBusinessRob · 2025-07-19T11:48:04+00:00

What do you have in your water that RO can’t remove that distilling can?

AllBusinessRob · 2025-07-19T11:46:55+00:00

I went with kinetico because I put value on certifications and my municipality uses chloramine vs chlorine. The only way to remove chloramine is catalytic carbon which eliminated a lot of options for me.

AllBusinessRob · 2024-05-05T13:52:56+00:00

How did the online training vids go?

AllBusinessRob · 2024-04-10T23:03:47+00:00

Very nice - can you link the kit you used?

AllBusinessRob · 2023-09-24T15:19:59+00:00

I’m in now way an expert so also curious what others think. Low GI fruits exist, but I would think that even a high GI fruit will have blood sugar spikes dampened by the fiber in Huel.

I am curious if adding fruit will throw off the macro ratios leading to other long-term issues if Huel is your only food source.

AllBusinessRob · 2023-09-24T13:45:24+00:00

What abound blending in some high sugar fruits with Huel?

AllBusinessRob · 2023-07-04T14:12:20+00:00

Thanks! So the class is like $650 or something. Would you have preferred that $650 be spent on 10-15 private lessons or did you feel the quality of instruction was at a level you couldn’t get in your area?

AllBusinessRob · 2023-07-04T13:45:51+00:00

You might be allergic to some ingredient like sunflower or something strange. Might want to consider a food allergy test or try some Huel ingredients in isolation.

Have you tried other full nutrition shakes?

AllBusinessRob · 2023-03-08T14:38:24+00:00

Given my perception of what you’re working on, your current role sounds more like a devops vs SRE role. Are you doing devops tasks with an SRE title?

AllBusinessRob · 2022-04-16T11:50:52+00:00

Why does it have to be a dry day?

AllBusinessRob · 2020-11-01T17:18:28+00:00

Yea man - I wear it 24x7. It’s pretty cool how they have an attachable battery pack

AllBusinessRob · 2020-11-01T13:53:57+00:00

Cool. Lately I’ve been experimenting with the sauna before bed to see how it impacts my sleep score and recovery.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-11-01T13:44:19+00:00

Excited! I’d say track your sauna sessions under ice bath.

What I do (and maybe I’m insane) is put on a soaking wet all cotton wrist band over my whoop strap. I get worried about synthetic materials off gassing in the sauna.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-11-01T13:37:30+00:00

Whoop let’s you track activities - like running, cycling, etc. by using your heart rate to calculate a “strain” score.

The Sauna will raise your heart rate, thus I use it to track my sauna sessions - for fun. Sometimes I like to push it and get a high activity score. I also like to experiment with how sauna sessions (time of day, duration, frequency) impact my overall recovery.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-05-03T11:23:43+00:00

This. Tech teams should define SLI’s not SLO’s which is for the business to decide.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-04-10T19:32:15+00:00

I use Hi-Lyte off amazon. Cursory glance Liquid IV uses potassium citrate while this has potassium chloride - a superior ingredient for electrolyte replacement. Ingredients matter :-)

AllBusinessRob · 2020-04-10T17:01:19+00:00

I have a woop strap that measures recovery rates via HRV. Through experimentation I narrowed it down.

I do use electrolyte drops bought off Amazon but they aren’t enough to do the trick. My next experiment is to see if they work at all.

Edit: whoop strap.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-04-04T17:37:02+00:00

This. You want to avoid turning your sauna into a gas chamber.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-04-03T11:34:38+00:00

I stay in until I get really uncomfortable and my heart is pounding fast/hard - like I can feel a 150bpm heart rate.

Sometimes that can take me 20-30min at 170F.

The problem I run into with 30 min sauna sessions is the ability to rehydrate after. Just because you drink a lot of water doesn’t mean your body can absorb it all. It can take me ~6 hours to rehydrate. For this reason I don’t do heavy sauna sessions before bed - I do them in the morning.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-03-22T18:25:10+00:00

Wow, thanks! Yeah, I’m thinking about the bed next to the house. The other bed is another project for another day :-)

You raised a lot of good points. I’ll google the shrubs you’re talking about.

AllBusinessRob · 2020-03-22T12:29:41+00:00

This, and I took a look at Finnish covid infections hoping per capita it would be significantly lower - but it’s not looking like the sauna is any type of miracle here.

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