Leon Adato
@leonadato.com
Itinerant wandering IT storyteller & DevOps ferret. #Monitoring, #Observability & automation fanboi. Author @ adatosystems.com. Host of TechnicallyReligious.com podcast. He/him. No #manels. Ask me about my grandkids.
New Post! Zmanim-WP: Getting Started
Getting Started with Getting Started If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. If you haven’t, you can check out everything written so far using this link.
bit.ly/4aLdeMi
Getting Started with Getting Started If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. If you haven’t, you can check out everything written so far using this link.
bit.ly/4aLdeMi
January 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
New Post! Zmanim-WP: Getting Started
Getting Started with Getting Started If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. If you haven’t, you can check out everything written so far using this link.
bit.ly/4aLdeMi
Getting Started with Getting Started If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. If you haven’t, you can check out everything written so far using this link.
bit.ly/4aLdeMi
I tweaked my gear and setup, and I'm ready to start the 2026 video season!
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
I tweaked my gear and setup, and I'm ready to start the 2026 video season!
I had the privilege of speaking at SREDay Paris recently. You can watch my talk - "Network O11y: Underappreciated and More Important Than Ever" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2H...
And all the SREDay Paris talks here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9g...
And all the SREDay Paris talks here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9g...
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I had the privilege of speaking at SREDay Paris recently. You can watch my talk - "Network O11y: Underappreciated and More Important Than Ever" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2H...
And all the SREDay Paris talks here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9g...
And all the SREDay Paris talks here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9g...
New Post! ...And Sometimes the Bear Gets You
I got scammed. This isn’t a story about how “…once upon a time, I got scammed.” It wasn’t a younger, less experienced, more trusting me. No.
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I got scammed. This isn’t a story about how “…once upon a time, I got scammed.” It wasn’t a younger, less experienced, more trusting me. No.
bit.ly/4pf41A0
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New Post! ...And Sometimes the Bear Gets You
I got scammed. This isn’t a story about how “…once upon a time, I got scammed.” It wasn’t a younger, less experienced, more trusting me. No.
bit.ly/4pf41A0
I got scammed. This isn’t a story about how “…once upon a time, I got scammed.” It wasn’t a younger, less experienced, more trusting me. No.
bit.ly/4pf41A0
New Post! ZMANIM-WP: Free Time
After running the Zmanim-WP plugin as a freemium offering for a while, I came to the decision to stop hiding some of the features behind a paywall, and let the user base decide what it’s worth.
bit.ly/44Na7iO
After running the Zmanim-WP plugin as a freemium offering for a while, I came to the decision to stop hiding some of the features behind a paywall, and let the user base decide what it’s worth.
bit.ly/44Na7iO
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New Post! ZMANIM-WP: Free Time
After running the Zmanim-WP plugin as a freemium offering for a while, I came to the decision to stop hiding some of the features behind a paywall, and let the user base decide what it’s worth.
bit.ly/44Na7iO
After running the Zmanim-WP plugin as a freemium offering for a while, I came to the decision to stop hiding some of the features behind a paywall, and let the user base decide what it’s worth.
bit.ly/44Na7iO
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from
I'm prepping slides for my talk at #SREday Amsterdam next week and thought I'd share this one. If you are in the neighborhood, it's going to be a fun conference for everyone!
sreday.com/2025-amsterd...
sreday.com/2025-amsterd...
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I'm prepping slides for my talk at #SREday Amsterdam next week and thought I'd share this one. If you are in the neighborhood, it's going to be a fun conference for everyone!
sreday.com/2025-amsterd...
sreday.com/2025-amsterd...
NEW POST! Semantic Caching: What We Measured, Why It Matters
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Semantic caching promises to make AI systems faster and cheaper by reducing duplicate calls to large language models (LLMs).
bit.ly/3JskgtP
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Semantic caching promises to make AI systems faster and cheaper by reducing duplicate calls to large language models (LLMs).
bit.ly/3JskgtP
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! Semantic Caching: What We Measured, Why It Matters
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Semantic caching promises to make AI systems faster and cheaper by reducing duplicate calls to large language models (LLMs).
bit.ly/3JskgtP
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Semantic caching promises to make AI systems faster and cheaper by reducing duplicate calls to large language models (LLMs).
bit.ly/3JskgtP
NEW POST! AI CURMUDGEON: AI is a backhoe
It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular.
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It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular.
bit.ly/4qnDhhJ
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! AI CURMUDGEON: AI is a backhoe
It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular.
bit.ly/4qnDhhJ
It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular.
bit.ly/4qnDhhJ
NEW POST! Here’s the proof: What the fastest sites on the web have in common
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) 60% of Gen Z won’t engage with a slow-loading website. In today’s digital economy, that’s a deal-breaker.
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(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) 60% of Gen Z won’t engage with a slow-loading website. In today’s digital economy, that’s a deal-breaker.
bit.ly/3KXeReQ
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! Here’s the proof: What the fastest sites on the web have in common
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) 60% of Gen Z won’t engage with a slow-loading website. In today’s digital economy, that’s a deal-breaker.
bit.ly/3KXeReQ
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) 60% of Gen Z won’t engage with a slow-loading website. In today’s digital economy, that’s a deal-breaker.
bit.ly/3KXeReQ
New Post! Software migration: Pain vs Risk
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced my fair share of software upgrades, migrations, and replacements.
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced my fair share of software upgrades, migrations, and replacements.
bit.ly/4n8XtRI
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New Post! Software migration: Pain vs Risk
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced my fair share of software upgrades, migrations, and replacements.
bit.ly/4n8XtRI
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced my fair share of software upgrades, migrations, and replacements.
bit.ly/4n8XtRI
NEW POST! Observability isn’t about the tool. It’s about the truth
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way.
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(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way.
bit.ly/3J1Spk6
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! Observability isn’t about the tool. It’s about the truth
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way.
bit.ly/3J1Spk6
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way.
bit.ly/3J1Spk6
NEW POST! Monitoring versu...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! Monitoring versu...
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NEW POST! From the source to the edge: the six agent types you can’t ignore
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators.
bit.ly/46UnuxQ
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators.
bit.ly/46UnuxQ
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! From the source to the edge: the six agent types you can’t ignore
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators.
bit.ly/46UnuxQ
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators.
bit.ly/46UnuxQ
NEW POST! Content Funnel Done Right
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/486Q15M
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/486Q15M
October 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
NEW POST! Content Funnel Done Right
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/486Q15M
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/486Q15M
NEW POST! Content Funnel Done Right
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/4pRbOVt
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/4pRbOVt
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! Content Funnel Done Right
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/4pRbOVt
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work.
bit.ly/4pRbOVt
NEW POST! Getting Started with Traceroute
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) “Traceroute? You mean the thing I can type at the command line? Why would I even want to set up a test for that?” This is, believe it or not, a comment we hear a lot at Catchpoint.
bit.ly/46rK5D9
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) “Traceroute? You mean the thing I can type at the command line? Why would I even want to set up a test for that?” This is, believe it or not, a comment we hear a lot at Catchpoint.
bit.ly/46rK5D9
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! Getting Started with Traceroute
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) “Traceroute? You mean the thing I can type at the command line? Why would I even want to set up a test for that?” This is, believe it or not, a comment we hear a lot at Catchpoint.
bit.ly/46rK5D9
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) “Traceroute? You mean the thing I can type at the command line? Why would I even want to set up a test for that?” This is, believe it or not, a comment we hear a lot at Catchpoint.
bit.ly/46rK5D9
NEW POST! Punchline, or Gut-Punch?
In that moment, anyone in the audience who'd made that choice found themselves in an unintentional spotlight. Without my meaning to, I'd made them and their work the butt of a joke.
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In that moment, anyone in the audience who'd made that choice found themselves in an unintentional spotlight. Without my meaning to, I'd made them and their work the butt of a joke.
bit.ly/46sQInC
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW POST! Punchline, or Gut-Punch?
In that moment, anyone in the audience who'd made that choice found themselves in an unintentional spotlight. Without my meaning to, I'd made them and their work the butt of a joke.
bit.ly/46sQInC
In that moment, anyone in the audience who'd made that choice found themselves in an unintentional spotlight. Without my meaning to, I'd made them and their work the butt of a joke.
bit.ly/46sQInC
@duolingoesp.bsky.social I was NOT expecting that plot twist at the end!
September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@duolingoesp.bsky.social I was NOT expecting that plot twist at the end!
NEW POST! Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol is here—Now Let’s Make it Observable
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Can your AI tools really work together, or are they still stuck in silos?
bit.ly/42r3lxZ
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Can your AI tools really work together, or are they still stuck in silos?
bit.ly/42r3lxZ
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW POST! Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol is here—Now Let’s Make it Observable
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Can your AI tools really work together, or are they still stuck in silos?
bit.ly/42r3lxZ
(This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Can your AI tools really work together, or are they still stuck in silos?
bit.ly/42r3lxZ