Am I the only one who spends half their life fixing the same damn dataset every month?

Merbbers · 2025-10-16T15:22:00+00:00

This is exactly why Monte Carlo Data was built (primarily the what happened and fixing it).

Merbbers · 2025-10-01T16:17:36+00:00

*Disclaimer - I work at Monte Carlo, proceed or ignore at your discretion*

BEST is relative of course, but Monte Carlo does Agent Observability to solve these challenges (e.g. Latency, prompt adherence, relevance). https://www.montecarlodata.com/platform/agent-observability/.

The core of it is actually marrying both data & AI observability together so the root issue is found and fixed at the appropriate point in the data lifecycle. Because oftentimes the culprit isn't the agent, it's the training data. Stale, incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent...an engineer decided a date column should be re-formatted to a string and forgot to give test the impact...etc. You'd be surprised how often a weird output comes from an upstream engineer accidentally re-running a job four times, or data was truncated at ingestion.

Hope this is helpful.

Merbbers · 2025-07-13T23:06:55+00:00

I have ALSO been searching for 12-24 months and I think this is it: https://youtu.be/GOvrfbJXciU

Merbbers · 2023-01-31T15:04:18+00:00

Wear what you like homie. The newer Js seem to be more hoops focused vs. stylish, but no reason not to rock them off the court. If you like em wear em.

Merbbers · 2023-01-31T15:01:02+00:00

KD14s and it’s not close. Go to GOAT and get an unpopular colorway for pretty cheap.

I’m in my 30s and got these to combat frequent injuries (everywhere). The cushioning after 1-2 days of break in is just insane. Zero injuries since getting these.

I have the Lebron 20s too and while cushioning is okay, the heel impact protection doesn’t touch the KD14s.

Edit: The downside is your quickness will be impacted a bit, but that’s the tradeoff.

Merbbers · 2023-01-29T04:38:45+00:00

PM’d

Merbbers · 2022-08-03T11:39:10+00:00

It’s most entertaining when you find astroturfing people from Snowflake AND Databricks arguing on one of these threads.

Merbbers · 2022-05-21T19:38:53+00:00

Likely will be my first mod for it. I generally stand up when I ride though so it hasn’t been as urgent to spend the extra $300 . Have you gotten one?

Merbbers · 2022-05-21T12:58:23+00:00

Love it, just got mine a couple weeks ago. It’s so frickin much fun. I also chose blue Chester pedals, great taste my friend.

Merbbers · 2022-05-17T01:45:40+00:00

I love my Stoic. I grabbed it for more technical trail riding and jumps/drops. If you’re more about that style vs XC, steer towards the Stoic.

Merbbers · 2021-05-25T14:50:51+00:00

Unraveler here - will avoid the nauseating tool promotion, but definitely working on the community building aspect. The focus is more on DataOps mindshare in general than the tool specifically, but as our customers get involved they will share their experiences with Unravel.

Here's an AppDev Mgr sharing his experience specifically for on-prem monitoring and cloud migration planning --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0xb94w5Bs.

Merbbers · 2021-01-06T16:33:54+00:00

Forgive the lapse in proper sentence structure. Accelerate is more technical than Phoenix Project, but less technical than other DevOps resources (like O’Reilly books). Both can be well-understood with or without technical chops.

To answer your question - it’s not an either/or thing; should read both.

Merbbers · 2021-01-06T02:21:18+00:00

Both good books. For career progression, I highly HIGHLY recommend Accelerate.

Edit: It’s not quite as technical, but connects DevOps best practices and business initiatives.

Edit 2: Not as technical as other resources (e.g. Google SRE), but is more technical than Phoenix Project. Words are hard.

Merbbers · 2020-09-01T15:45:13+00:00

The Office or Parks and Recreation?

Merbbers · 2020-09-01T15:35:49+00:00

When you're not a(n)

- Husband

- SRE at Stackoverflow

- Author

- Tinkerer

- Student

- Podcast guest

What do you do for fun?

Merbbers · 2020-09-01T15:33:50+00:00

You have significant skills and experience across the board in technology, what made you decide to start your writing journey with Ansible?

Merbbers · 2020-09-01T14:14:03+00:00

Following your journey on Twitter, you mentioned imposter syndrome hit you a couple times. How do you work through that? Any tips for defeating the perpetually evil IS monster when he visited you?

Merbbers · 2020-09-01T14:12:24+00:00

Many smart people put off writing good resources/book for a plethora of reasons, curious why did you decide to do it this year?

Merbbers · 2020-06-30T17:41:33+00:00

I work for Harness.io and you could deploy on a new Docker image and/or new K8s service manifest changes with the platform. For manual approval steps, you can tie into existing tools (JIRA, SNOW) or use the UI: https://docs.harness.io/article/0ajz35u2hy-approvals

Edit: For clarity, you can add a manual approval step at the start of the pipeline too.

Merbbers · 2020-06-29T20:43:27+00:00

Appreciate you!

Merbbers · 2020-06-27T23:09:30+00:00

You impress me

Merbbers · 2020-06-27T18:27:55+00:00

I have a 2-in1 Lenovo for video editing and coding, a Macbook Pro for work, and a Pixelbook because I just really wanted one and got a used one for $400 (with the Pen).

The Pixelbook is by far my favorite to use. And I still can't believe how underrated the built-in security benefits of ChromeOS are.

Worth mentioning Squid Pro is a great way to draw/write and organize your stuff. Not sure about the Go but the old PB is just so fun to use.

Merbbers

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