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We found 1000 of our Twitter followers on Mastodon.
It struck us that this could make an interesting anecdotal snapshot of which technical instances #observability #sre #devops folks flock to.
23% on hachyderm.io
4.5% on infosec.exchange
2.8% on fosstodon.org
1.3% on techhub.social
1.3% on indieweb.social
1.3% on ruby.social
0.9% on tech.lgbt
0.9% on macaw.social
0.8% on awscommunity.social
0.6% on discuss.systems
The other 62.5% are on smaller tech servers or general topic servers.
As we take our first steps into the fediverse, we are wondering - are there specific things you'd like to see from us?
Obviously we plan to keep posting about #observability & #OpenTelemetry, with our usual meanderings into engineering management & #devops. And you'll never pry us away from #hugops or snark.
Also: if you're wondering why we followed you here, it's because you were following us on Twitter and we wanted you to know we were here!
Don't mind us, just deploying a new channel three days before the winter holidays, like you do.
Happy o11ydays from us to you!
We’ve got some fun and festive o11y treats for you, so be sure to sleigh ride into this blog to learn how you can make the cool heatmap art you've seen us post, and maybe get an awesome o11y gift!
And while we originally wrote this with LinkedIn and Twitter in mind, if you follow the submission instructions on Mastodon we will also send you fun stuff :)
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/happy-o11ydays
#o11ydays #o11y #opentelemetry #testinprod #honeycomb #observability
Coming up next week! Fresh discussions with maintainers & other people implementing OpenTelemetry in production at this month's OpenTelemetry End User Discussion Group sessions:
- EMEA: Jan 17, 11AM CET (GMT +1)
- APAC: Jan 18, 11AM IST (India)
- AMER: Jan 19, 9AM PST
Find the Zoom links here: https://opentelemetry.io/community/end-user/discussion-group/
On the 12th day of #o11ydays my true love gave to me:
Twelve tracers tracing
Eleven metrics counting
Ten custom queries
Nine deploy markers
Eight what is different?
Seven is this normal?
Six what is broken?
Five SLOs
Four bottlenecks
Three waterfalls
Two service maps
and Honeycomb Observability!
Thanks @jessitron@hachyderm.io for the fun lyrics.
You've just exceeded my Excel knowledge. I could certainly send you the data set if you're really interested - debirdify only scans publicly available information.