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Posts by Jamie Danielson

Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer

Jamie is a software engineer with a passion for learning and solving problems.

Observability   Conferences & Meetups  

Measure What Matters

Have you ever had an alert go off that you immediately ignore? It’s a nuisance alert—not actionable—but you keep it around just in case. Or...

Culture   Conferences & Meetups  

KubeCon NA 2023: What a Conference!

Now that we’ve had time to decompress from Kubecon, we wanted to do a writeup about our collective experience. Six of us spoke at the...

OpenTelemetry   Observability  

Observability Is About Confidence

Observability is important to understand what’s happening in production. But carving out the time to add instrumentation to a codebase is daunting, and often treated...

Software Engineering  

How We Use Smoke Tests to Gain Confidence in Our Code

Also known as confidence testing, smoke testing is intended to focus on some critical aspects of the software that are required as a baseline. The...