Announcing the release of my book on building modern monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, collectd, Logstash, and friends

Suppressing Riemann alerts during planned work by injecting maintenance events into the index and wrapping notifications with a check function

Why string based logs hurt machine consumption, and how to emit typed structured events from a Rails app with Lograge and Logstash-logger

A look at sixty junior engineer job ads showing how degree requirements, years of experience, and overspecified skills shut out actual junior candidates

Twenty plus practical tips from years of flying covering manners, packing, charging, club memberships, seat choice, and treating crews well

Publishing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2015 monitoring survey for anyone who wants to do their own analysis

When checks get added, how many alerts go unanswered, and how widely configuration management is used in 2015 monitoring environments