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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 3d

📣 At #ObservabilityCON 2025, we announced updates that make observability smarter, scalable, and easier for every team — including Grafana Assistant GA, new additions to the Adaptive Telemetry, & more.

Read more:
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/08/observabilitycon-2025-announcements/

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nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 4d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 8d

Have your say! Let us know whether you would like more net recommender surveys.

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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 8d

Call it “The Dashboard of a Showgirl” 🎶

4 Swifties with varying levels of engineering expertise used Grafana Assistant to build a #TaylorSwift dashboard that will never go out of style.

✨ Enchanted ✨ to share the dashboard and the story behind it.

Taylor Swift (Grafana’s Version): How to track and visualize data related to pop’s biggest superstar | Grafana Labs

In celebration of The Life of a Showgirl, a team of Grafanistas used Grafana Assistant to build a dazzling dashboard that lets you visualize the eras and career milestones of the one and only Taylor S...

grafana.com

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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 9d

Taylor's in her Showgirl era — and this week, so is Grafana ✨

Using Grafana Assistant, we built a Taylor Swift dashboard — and it tells Taylor's musical story all too well.

Full dashboard reveal coming this Friday!

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 9d

Not much need; we have enough control over clients to do all the mesh features in code.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 12d

Teddington Lock

River view, late evening. Trees and orange sky.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 14d

KCDs, KCDs everywhere!

www.cncf.io/blog/2025/09...

Announcing H1 2026 KCDs

We’re excited to announce the first wave of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and…

www.cncf.io

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Michael Pratt @prattmic.com · 14d

Go's execution tracer is a woefully underutilized tool. It contains tons of information about what is happening at any given moment that you won't get with a profile.

In addition to showing flight recording capabilities, this post provides a nice example of how to use tracing to diagnose a problem.

Go @golang.org · 14d

“Flight Recorder in Go 1.25” by Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek — https://go.dev/blog/flight-recorder

#golang

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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 15d

Who's going to #SRECon? 🇮🇪

We're excited to be a sponsor! Come to booth 8 with your #Grafana Stack questions and pick up some swag! Don't miss Nikola's talk on auto-instrumentation for GPU performance using #eBPF.

See you there!

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 16d

De Niro quipped: "Speech, it ain't free no more."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jimmy Kimmel calls out 'anti-American' threats to free speech in tearful TV return

The comedian returned from a brief suspension after comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

www.bbc.com

Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 18d

I enjoyed your talk too - we managed to mostly talk about different aspects of the implementation.

youtu.be/aqtIM5AK9t4

Faster Go Maps With Swiss Tables - Michael Pratt | GopherCon EU 2025

YouTube video by GopherCon Europe

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks! I also tried to measure the GOAMD64=v1/v2/v3 difference and it was in the noise. Maybe the benchmarks are too micro.

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 19d

I’d better start writing my talk!

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 19d

Video is up now - my take on how map is implemented in Go, and what changed from Go 1.23 to 1.24 and 1.25.

youtu.be/M05t7Q6LbFs

Swiss Maps in Go - Bryan Boreham

YouTube video by GopherCon UK

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 21d

Worth a listen - Go security from the horse’s mouth.

roland.zone @roland.zone · 21d

I did a talk at the UK GopherCon last month about what my team does, and I only let my laptop fall asleep twice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtq...

Go Security – Past, Present, and Future - Roland Shoemaker

YouTube video by GopherCon UK

www.youtube.com

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 21d

If one requests more cpu than the other, and the machine is maxed out, then they will share the total in that proportion.

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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22d

Meet Mimir Query Engine: faster queries, leaner memory use, and a cornerstone of Grafana Mimir 3.0.

👉 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/17/faster-more-memory-efficient-performance-in-grafana-mimir-a-closer-look-at-mimir-query-engine/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 23d

My talk from #gopherconuk is up on YouTube!
My take on how map is implemented in Go, and what changed from Go 1.23 to 1.24 and 1.25.

youtu.be/M05t7Q6LbFs

* Talk contains no AI, but does contain pictures of cats.

Swiss Maps in Go - Bryan Boreham

YouTube video by GopherCon UK

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 28d

I accidentally found myself on the edge of this. Scary.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands gather for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally, and counter protest

More than 100,000 people join a rally organised by the far-right activist in London, with a counter-protest by Stand Up To Racism also taking place.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · Sep 8

The first half is a good explanation of how neural networks grew into LLMs; in the second half his conclusions seem a stretch to me.
Can’t fault his credentials though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikdz...