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Descriptive engineering: not just for post-mortems

· October 27, 2022 · 1 minute to read

Descriptive engineering: not just for post-mortems

Prescriptive engineering is when you say, “What are we going to build, and how?”, and then you execute your plan. Teams with strong prescriptive engineering capabilities can deliver high-quality features fast. And that is, of course, indispensable.

But prescriptive engineering is not enough. As surprises emerge, we need to spot them, understand them, and explain them. We need to practice descriptive engineering.

I see this as basically reliability engineering, but perhaps the advantage of Descriptive Engineering as a new term is that it reframes SRE work as the job of all engineers.

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Structural diff with difftastic and JetBrains IDEs

· September 10, 2022 · 2 minutes to read

I learned about difftastic today, which aims to show differences between files while being aware of the underlying programming language used in said files (if any). It’s basically magic when it works! I generally like the built-in diff in the JetBrains suite of IDEs. The one I use these days is GoLand, but I believe […]

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Prometheus group evaluation order

· June 14, 2022 · 2 minutes to read

In Prometheus, if one recording rule uses metrics produced by another make sure they’re in the same group.

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Cloudflare blocking Indieweb ring

· June 4, 2022 · 1 minute to read

[Edit 2023-05-21] This seems to have been fixed by Cloudflare silently at some point. I was trying to add this site to Indieweb ring last night and found that it couldn’t validate the presence of the previous/next links, even though they were clearly in the footer of every page. I cleared the WordPress and Cloudflare […]