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Michael Sickles
@mcsick.bsky.social
Presales Solution Architect, Former Software Dev. I help people see value in Observability solutions. PHD in OpenTelemetry. Full of Hot-takes.
Lieing does no good in a sales process. If you have to lie to sell your product, you have already lost. The wonderful engineers at Honeycomb do a lot of work to make #OpenTelemetry successful.

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Michael Sickles on LinkedIn: Loading Grafana
Why do companies lie when it's so easy to disprove a lie? I won't name any names, but a competitor we are going up against is telling a shared customer that…
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November 14, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Getting a good environment to test code is hard. Once you have a distributed system hooked into cloud environments, the amount of code you can change locally and have a good idea about its performance decreases. Staging environments are better. But prod is the one true way to validate your code.
November 13, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Google failed me. I saw a ".ex" extension in the wild. I had a feeling it was Elixir but wanted to validate as I personally have never used it. Google made me to believe it's some very obscure programming language I have never heard of.

I must become a #Euphoria dev.

#Elixir #programming
October 31, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I just set up ubuntu on my NUC. Starting from scratch again means setting up a good shell profile with alias's. And yet again I remind myself, I should be putting all of this into a GitHub repo so I can simply download and go.

#docker #shell #ubuntu
October 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM