Tag: #metrics
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 12 posts
12 posts are tagged #metrics; the most recent was published on 2026-08-15.
Often tagged together: #observability 8 #prometheus 5 #2026-03 4 #opentelemetry 4 #distributed-tracing 3
Most read in the last 90 days:
- Observability Complete Guide 2025: Making Systems Transparent with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Time Series Databases 2026 Deep Dive - InfluxDB 3 · TimescaleDB · QuestDB · ClickHouse · Prometheus · VictoriaMetrics · Grafana Mimir
- OpenTelemetry 2026 Deep Dive — OTLP, Semantic Conventions, the Collector Pipeline, and Auto-Instrumentation After the Standardization War
The Complete Guide to Code Review: Designing Review as a Process ♪ Listenable
Treats code review not as a conversation but as a system with throughput, latency and ownership. Covers documenting the approval standard, change size, the one-business-day response rule, splitting work between humans an
2026-08-15 · 20 min read #코드리뷰#개발문화#code-review#process#automationDesigning Prometheus Metrics That Answer Questions — Choosing Types, Cardinality Budgets, and the Traps in rate and Quantiles
More metrics is not better — a metric earns its keep only by answering a question. This post starts by laying out which questions counters, gauges, and histograms each answer, and which calculations become impossible in
2026-08-02 · 17 min read #observability#prometheus#promql#metrics#cardinalityHow Text, Images, and Agents Are Each Measured — Why the Three Domains Measure Fundamentally Different Things ♪ Listenable
Text, images, and agents all use the word "performance," but their measurement structures are entirely different. Text splits into multiple-choice that pretends to have a correct answer and open-ended generation that has
2026-08-02 · 21 min read #llm-evaluation#multimodal#llm-as-judge#agent-benchmark#metricsThe Economics of Refactoring: When Does It Pay Off — Calculating With Change Frequency
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring, published on martinfowler.com on July 30, 2026, refactored a 17,000-line module in 15 steps and measured input tokens for the same repeated change request dropping from 159,564 to 27,
2026-07-31 · 15 min read #refactoring#engineering#technical-debt#ai#metricsNative Histograms Are Stable Now — So Why Haven't You Turned Them On Yet
Prometheus native histograms showed up as an experimental feature in v2.40 (November 2022), went stable in 3.8.0 (December 2025), and 3.13, released July 1, 2026, is the first LTS to ship the feature in stable state. The
2026-07-16 · 17 min read #prometheus#observability#native-histograms#metrics#monitoringHow Successful Companies Go Blind — and What It Looks Like in Engineering
Ian Reppel’s essay argues that successful companies suffer from what he calls "competence blindness" — like the Mexican cavefish that suppresses its own eyes, they stop expressing careful engineering because the environm
2026-07-11 · 8 min read #engineering-culture#organizations#legacy#metrics#leadershipTime Series Databases 2026 Deep Dive - InfluxDB 3 · TimescaleDB · QuestDB · ClickHouse · Prometheus · VictoriaMetrics · Grafana Mimir ♪ Listenable
A full-stack 2026 dissection of time-series databases. InfluxDB 3.0 Rust + Apache Arrow + DataFusion + Parquet rewrite, TimescaleDB 2.18 hypertables, QuestDB 8.x SIMD ingest, ClickHouse 25.x MergeTree, Prometheus 3.0 and
2026-05-16 · 26 min read #time-series-database#influxdb#timescaledb#questdb#clickhouseOpenTelemetry 2026 Deep Dive — OTLP, Semantic Conventions, the Collector Pipeline, and Auto-Instrumentation After the Standardization War ♪ Listenable
OpenTelemetry is no longer 'one of the competing options.' As of May 2026, OTLP is the single wire protocol every major observability vendor accepts, and HTTP / relational DB / messaging semantic conventions v1 are locke
2026-05-14 · 23 min read #opentelemetry#observability#traces#metrics#logsObservability & Monitoring Complete Guide 2025: Logging, Metrics, Tracing, Alerting Strategy
Everything about Observability! Three Pillars (Logs/Metrics/Traces), OpenTelemetry, Prometheus+Grafana, ELK Stack, Distributed Tracing (Jaeger/Tempo), Alerting Strategy (PagerDuty/OpsGenie), SLO/SLI/SLA, Cost Optimizatio
2026-03-25 · 18 min read #observability#monitoring#logging#distributed-tracing#metricsObservability Complete Guide 2025: Making Systems Transparent with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry ♪ Listenable
Master the three pillars of observability (Metrics/Logs/Traces)! Prometheus queries (PromQL), Grafana dashboards, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Jaeger distributed tracing, ELK/Loki logging, alerting strategies, SLI/SLO/
2026-03-23 · 16 min read #observability#monitoring#prometheus#grafana#opentelemetryVMI Status, Metrics, Guest Agent, Debugging: How KubeVirt Exposes Internal State
Describes how KubeVirt collects and exposes VM internal state through VMI status, guest agent, domain stats, Prometheus metrics, and virt-handler API, based on code analysis.
2026-03-20 · 6 min read #architecture#kubevirt#observability#metrics#guest-agentOpenTelemetry Collector Production Guide: Pipeline Architecture, Custom Processors, and Scaling Strategies
A comprehensive guide to OpenTelemetry Collector covering pipeline architecture design, receiver/processor/exporter configuration, custom processor development, agent vs gateway deployment, tail sampling strategies, and
2026-03-07 · 13 min read #observability#opentelemetry#telemetry-pipeline#distributed-tracing#metrics