Rob Skillington

Believer in monitoring as a critical foundation to run any real world system. Cofounder/CTO @chronosphereio. Began open source M3

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@JarenGlover @chronosphereio @martin_c_mao Was so great to have an expert practitioner as an angel Jaren. Ty for the check-ins and I still enjoy a trip down memory lane to talk Kafka war stories, etc in addition to our regular topics 😅

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@jerrychen @chronosphereio @PaloAltoNtwks @martin_c_mao Has been great to have such a strong convicted partner Jerry. Changing the status quo takes a highly accurate and savvy strategy with a village of the most capable, talented and all round great teammates. Onwards and upwards!

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@knowclarified @_cat_turner @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio I think there is nuance as always, here’s my attempt to add a little more color: https://t.co/QIW5QAj3xK

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio So the first one we sent was definitely a healthy excercise and forced us to think more organized about where we were and what threads we were pulling on, how hard should we follow them and were we overindexed on one or two things more than we should have. Board mtgs better tho.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio Interim virtual board mtgs with smaller groups I think works really nice. At one point we were doing monthly but only every 2 or 3 months did we do an in person board mtg. Not everyone can make the virtual board mtgs but discussion always great. I prob prefer text tha slides tho.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio So the first one we sent was definitely a healthy excercise and forced us to think more organized about where we were and what threads we were pulling on, how hard should we follow them and were we overindexed on one or two things more than we should have. Board mtgs better tho.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio I think whether you develop & maintain strong 1-1 relationships which is where you collaboratively perform the best vs do it in a more open community group are two very different styles. No which one is wrong IMO, just two different approaches.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

Oncall "Distraction Tax" is an immediately recognizable term for anyone who has faced this in the real world. Some will remember vividly months or sometimes years climbing out of bad periods, or even some teams needing complete restructuring.
@billyo11y : https://t.co/oUtESgCmvF

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

#busydevlife During holiday-slow-down and pre-new years eve, now updating MacOS so I can run newly released Ghostty for a fast native terminal that I would have loved over the past few years (TY Mitch and community! The future is now)

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@sinkingpoint Wow, it is late “W, X, Y, Zed or Zee” of course. Missed the Y, that’s embarrassing 😅

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@sinkingpoint 🤣 - I do like Zed though, not because I think it’s a good editor (i mean it is from what i tested but i can’t pay the switching cost right now), but because it pronounces the letter the way Australias pronounce Z not like here in the US (Zeeeeee…)

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

Also I hate The Wiggles for accommodating this in their alphabet songs (when they get to end of alphabet instead of making a judgement call on one way of pronouncing the letter they instead say “W, X, Zed or Zee… now i know my ABC, blah blah blah”.

I mean come on… pick a lane!

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

11.30pm after landing in LGA in New York after meeting-packed day in Chicago and the airport is packed with folks leaving, more so than any Australian airport I’ve ever seen at its busiest as a bunch of planes land at once on a “normal” day. Scary: Humans quickly normalize scale.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

A really interesting read on LibreSSL and its journey of its fork from OpenSSL:
https://t.co/7Uq8qAy5Op

By the numbers:
OpenSSL 1.0.1g was a 388,000 line code base.
About 90,000 lines of C source code deleted, about 150,000 lines of files.
Approximately at 500,000 line unidiff.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@juliusvolz @PrometheusIO @chronosphereio Got it, that makes a lot of sense! I can’t emphasize enough how much easier and straight forward it is to build complex queries knowing the cardinality+speed/latency for sub-parts of query and easily doing side by side analysis of LHS v RHS label matching to fix mismatches, etc.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

So brilliant to see PromLens w/ complex query visual editing, PromQL JOIN interactive explain/debugging, label & size of result set per sub-statement in the query now part of @PrometheusIO.

Here's to making things that stand the test of time & move the entire industry forward.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@sinkingpoint Kind of a crazy fallback, i wonder if there’s some esoteric try/catch and just inlines on failure?

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

@ChrisChinch @PersesDev I actually don’t know yet 🤣

Will let you know if I do 👍

I have a lot of other travel around that and may need to see the kids in between it or risk feeling awful hah.

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

Hope folks are gearing up to hear about the latest all things Prom at PromCon and from Eric about @PersesDev OSS (Apache 2) which is re-imagining a purely observability focused visualization, graphing and debugging UX designed from the ground up to leverage the best of PromQL.

[Eric D. Schabell (@schabell.org) @ericschabell]

There's a new kid coming to @CloudNativeFdn Sandbox.... to celebrate I'm sharing #o11y fun with integrating #cloudnative #observability with @PersesDev visualization & @PrometheusIO at @PromConIO EU next month! @CNCFAmbassadors @chronosphereio https://t.co/3WCUovg5tX

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

Additionally our sales engineers shot many complex demo videos each with their own environment setup and teardown (also frequently refined after several rounds of feedback, some feedback coming directly from Martin himself as well as Jeff our head of product in the final hours).

[Rob Skillington @roskilli]

🧵 Leading the Magic Quadrant!

Stats: 34 Chronauts poured in many many hours over months on our submission, >300 questions answered on one of the most complex spreadsheets I have ever collaborated on with a large group (we had to lock rows), we also exchanged >1,000 Slack msgs

[Chronosphere @chronosphereio]

We’re very excited to announce that we’ve been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms!

Get your copy of the full report here: https://t.co/KJJmT102Gp
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