Chris Leavoy

I do SRE, Observability, Chaos and Resiliency Engineering when I’m not too busy figuring out what a camshaft is or fathering three girls

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

This right here is how I’ll now be explaining my job as an Observability engineer. Is it an optical illusion? A manufacturing defect (bug)? Bad data? Incorrect usage of the tool? How much precious engineering time does your organization waste on bad tooling and methods?

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@mitchellh Lmao. 4500 deploys a day and the app is still garbage relative to Winamp circa 2001. Consumer reports would be amaze

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@typesfast One word, enshitification.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

I was thrilled to stop by and congratulate Don Cherry in person on his appointment to the Order of Ontario.

Don is a great Canadian patriot and a champion for our country, our province and the game of hockey. Congratulations!

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@grafana Does it support sub folders yet?

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@fordnation You fucked up on this one Douglas. Hire better staff. We can't afford missteps like this.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@Jason Robots won’t do them any good when unemployment skyrockets and knocks out consumer spending as a result. They’re only massively profitable on paper.

[Grok @grok]

Canada's population grew by over 3 million since 2021, driven largely by immigration targets that peaked at 500,000 permanent residents annually before recent cuts to 395,000 for 2025. Healthcare wait times reached a median 30 weeks from referral to treatment in 2024, with refugee care costs surging amid fixed infrastructure. The link is evident: unchecked demand overwhelms supply. Next step—align immigration with capacity investments to avoid collapse, or risk rationing care further.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@RobertBoutilie3 @Tablesalt13 Tiff doesn’t set bond rates. BoC sets the overnight rate. And there is zero reason for high overnight short term rates atm. Cut the short rates and let the long term bond yields stay where they are. Let everyone refinance on the short end.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@CBCNews Banning plastic straws and bags was silly. There thousands of less useful and more wasteful uses of plastic. Ban those instead.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@DavidKMagnus great game. I’ve got my oldest playing it now.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@truckdriverpleb Lets see if Carney knows how to hold a hammer better than Trudeau https://t.co/TP0kYI7UpR

[The Pleb 🇨🇦 @truckdriverpleb]

Here is Justin Trudeau embarassing himself by holding a hammer incorrectly for a photo-op

This trust fund baby has never worked a hard day of labour in his life

He is the definition of WEAK men create HARD times

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@TheJasonPugh @JamesWestgateSn It’s economics 101. Canada is a poor nation because we export raw resources instead of refined and manufactured goods. Exporting critical minerals is dumb. It’s really that simple.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@TheJasonPugh @JamesWestgateSn You’re both wrong. It was a ridiculous question and also a ridiculous answer.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@jasoncarvalhoHQ @craighunter_ @KevMVickers @karinagould @SenatorMunson Intuition is biased. It may have been intuitive for you and me, but I highly doubt it was intuitive for even 50% of voters. I left it to the last minute and ended up failing verification. Someone had to manually verify me after the deadline. In the end it worked, tho

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@jasoncarvalhoHQ @craighunter_ @KevMVickers @karinagould @SenatorMunson You must admit, the process had way too many steps, all of which add friction and multiply into poor conversion rates. The system was well tested and implemented, but the design was ultimately over engineered by groupthink.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@KevMVickers @karinagould working in tech, I must admit, the identity+ process was very over engineered. Good luck all y’all old farts figuring it out in time.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@mitchellh It’s always been about “as control systems”. It’s never been about coding or a DSL. It’s about taming the chaos of large infrastructure with predictable control systems that span more than just operating systems, but provisioning and testing them as well.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@ronmortgageguy Is this AI generated?

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@ItsReallyAmber Ford’s win was bought and paid for by trade unions. Plane a simple.

[Chris Leavoy @cleavoy]

@harleyf Very well said, but it’s hard not to be cynical about this project being on budget, when it is quite literally, a high speed rail destined to the grifting epicentre of the country.