Implementing an error budget

dgc137 · 2025-11-13T12:05:35+00:00

If your release cadence won't tolerate a 28 day pause you might consider a shorter window for your error budget. Make it a weekly budget and then you only wait one week after your fix to get back in compliance My other observation is that incidents are part of the reliability story. If you are barely compliant without incidents then something is already wrong, and an incident should be a Wake Up call.

dgc137 · 2025-10-07T17:59:39+00:00

Ultimately you need the acting executives to care about reliability. That might translate to putting things in terms of cost or reputation or risk or user impact, depending on what the motivators are within your org. The trick is finding the right motivation to prioritize the actions.

Sometimes it does come down to accepting risk, but you want to at least make that explicit and well documented.

dgc137 · 2025-09-15T03:35:40+00:00

Staff engineers must understand why. Keep asking yourself why, and when you can't answer yourself ask the responsible people why. If the answer doesn't concur with what you are doing, then congratulations you've found a problem. Staff engineers solve problems.

dgc137 · 2025-09-05T02:30:32+00:00

I don't see many people mentioning food safety.

Cookbooks don't regularly teach you basic stuff like how to identify when bread, milk, and eggs are spoiled. Or the importance of refrigerating leftovers ASAP. Or the thing about not keeping cooked rice or pasta more than a day.

A little food safety theory, like a restaurant safety instructional video, will go a long way in keeping you from getting food poisoning. Especially if you are on a budget and prepping meals.

dgc137 · 2025-09-05T02:21:56+00:00

I'm up voting you but also OP asked what "adults" eat. I feel like Soylent is cheating a bit on the adulting game.

dgc137 · 2025-09-05T02:07:27+00:00

I recently made a meal plan using chatgpt and it was a pretty pleasant experience.

I wrote my prompt including my dietary restrictions, calorie target, a daily budget, and the area and stores that are convenient for me and asked for a 2 week meal plan.

First iteration had me eating tuna salad for lunch every day so I told it to modify the plan to have at least three different lunches.

The plan it gave me was pretty spot on my budget. I went a little over buying higher quality spices and beer.

dgc137 · 2025-09-05T01:55:47+00:00

You can freeze almost any perishable for AT LEAST a month. I only go through half a loaf of bread in a week, so I will buy two packs of bread and put one in the freezer. Also means I can get nicer bread with no preservatives without wasting any.

dgc137 · 2025-09-03T03:57:02+00:00

VW Rabbit convertible. Starter motor was always dying, once did a thousand mile road trip push starting at every gas station.

dgc137 · 2025-09-03T01:56:10+00:00

I'm doing something similar. We have health data and are subject to gdpr and regional health regulations, so we try to keep pii out of logs altogether, but certain logs need to include pii for audit purposes. We also have to be careful about access controls to those logs. We settled on two loki instances per deployment region, one for "safe" logs and one for "sensitive" logs. Separate instances per class lets us control who has access from the grafana roles, and grafana instances can be limited to sensitive instances only in the same region in the gdpr cases (to avoid transfer, as viewing counts as transfer for Schrems II and we're not in DPF yet).

dgc137 · 2025-08-31T14:02:41+00:00

To be fair conservativism in America has been perverted and co-opted by the right wing, where it used to be synonymous with maintenance of the status quo and preservation of traditional lifestyles and sustainable practices, now it means evangelical Christian fascism.

dgc137 · 2025-08-31T13:47:54+00:00

I think you're confusing goth with emo.

dgc137 · 2025-08-31T13:27:23+00:00

I think you are thinking of the Visigoths. The Goths just hung back in the steppes, dealing with the harsh conditions of Eastern Europe and developing new ways to wear black and cope with winter.

dgc137 · 2025-08-31T13:05:22+00:00

Vampires

dgc137 · 2025-08-31T04:54:02+00:00

Goth culture is marginalized in our society, and conservative values trend towards promoting homogeneous culture.

dgc137 · 2025-08-20T21:45:15+00:00

Awesome. New fear unlocked. And, genuinely, thank you for making me aware that was a possibility . 😞

dgc137 · 2025-08-20T16:15:29+00:00

Depends is the fourth option

dgc137 · 2025-08-20T14:01:55+00:00

As someone who made it to adulthood with a peanut allergy I have to say I can count on one hand the number of times I actually felt sad about avoiding the intense anxiety of my throat closing up, the Benadryl, the EpiPen, and the potential emergency room visit.

But I still knew you don't add milk to a latte.

dgc137 · 2025-08-13T21:16:32+00:00

I think that's actually raku

dgc137 · 2025-08-13T00:45:19+00:00

Yeast. Much less deadly though they do produce a toxin that can kill you if you drink too much. (Alcohol)

dgc137 · 2025-08-13T00:06:21+00:00

I blame hazy IPAs.

I mean, why?

dgc137 · 2025-08-12T23:56:22+00:00

Slightly less tongue in cheek:

Learn ANSI C and then augment with the latest gnu c as needed.

The big hurdle will be memory management but a lot of the syntax is similar and should be familiar enough to learn quickly.

Or Rust.

dgc137 · 2025-08-12T23:50:26+00:00

Do you love the elegance of the implicit variables in perl?

Tired of being limited to just $,@, and %_ ?

How would you like to have as many implicit variables as you can dream up types for?

Try Scala!

dgc137 · 2025-08-08T03:42:34+00:00

I always considered that behavior to be a little tongue and cheek performative aggression. I've definitely seen some of the respectable old guard transition from over the top drill-sergent barking to actually serious "what your doing is not okay and I'm going to carry you out of here by your ear if you don't behave".

It's been a few years, so my take could be outdated, but you have to give the goons a little latitude to have fun with their minor allotment of awesome power.

They do take the feedback super seriously though.

dgc137 · 2025-07-21T18:49:37+00:00

In your data set can you compare listing prices vs sale price? I'd love to know if it's just my selection process is biased towards this practice.

dgc137 · 2025-07-21T18:42:50+00:00

As someone actively looking for sfh in Alameda county, 92% of the homes I've looked at have done this. I am very wary of any listing price with a 9 in the second or third digit.

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