Rob Skillington

@JarenGlover @chronosphereio @martin_c_mao Was so great to have an expert practitioner as an angel Jaren. Ty for the check-ins and I still enjoy a trip down memory lane to talk Kafka war stories, etc in addition to our regular topics 😅

@chronosphereio Lastly to @roskilli and @martin_c_mao, who formed like Voltron: I am very grateful to have aligned with the company early.

"metrics rule everything around me" When a great founding team, new technology, and a fertile market intersect – David can challenge the throne of Goliath. @chronosphereio 🚀🌕

@jerrychen @chronosphereio @PaloAltoNtwks @martin_c_mao Has been great to have such a strong convicted partner Jerry. Changing the status quo takes a highly accurate and savvy strategy with a village of the most capable, talented and all round great teammates. Onwards and upwards!

Exciting day for the @chronosphereio and @PaloAltoNtwks teams as they officially join forces. @martin_c_mao and @roskilli are two of the most high-integrity and humble people I’ve had the privilege to work with. A rare combination of confidence, yet always open to feedback and learning. I'm very grateful for the chance to be a part of Chronosphere's journey, and to have led the first round of funding on behalf of @GreylockVC . It's been a fun ride! Congrats again, Martin and Rob! I know you'll do great things in this next chapter

@knowclarified @_cat_turner @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio I think there is nuance as always, here’s my attempt to add a little more color: x.com/roskilli/statu…

@_cat_turner @geoffreywoo @roskilli @chronosphereio It’s normal to have tough quarters and warn they’ll need help etc. His post seems quite naive tbh

Only 2 investor updates matter: 1) confirm investment was received 2) sold the company for 3.35 billion dollars. Number of interim updates in the messy middle is not correlated with success in my experience, but they are well appreciated. @roskilli @chronosphereio

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio Interim virtual board mtgs with smaller groups I think works really nice. At one point we were doing monthly but only every 2 or 3 months did we do an in person board mtg. Not everyone can make the virtual board mtgs but discussion always great. I prob prefer text tha slides tho.

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio So the first one we sent was definitely a healthy excercise and forced us to think more organized about where we were and what threads we were pulling on, how hard should we follow them and were we overindexed on one or two things more than we should have. Board mtgs better tho.

@jbahrdestefano @geoffreywoo @chronosphereio I think whether you develop & maintain strong 1-1 relationships which is where you collaboratively perform the best vs do it in a more open community group are two very different styles. No which one is wrong IMO, just two different approaches.

@geoffreywoo @roskilli @chronosphereio in our portfolio, typically the highest performing companies are the ones who send routine updates

Oncall "Distraction Tax" is an immediately recognizable term for anyone who has faced this in the real world. Some will remember vividly months or sometimes years climbing out of bad periods, or even some teams needing complete restructuring. @billyo11y : forbes.com/councils/forbe…

#busydevlife During holiday-slow-down and pre-new years eve, now updating MacOS so I can run newly released Ghostty for a fast native terminal that I would have loved over the past few years (TY Mitch and community! The future is now)

@sinkingpoint Wow, it is late “W, X, Y, Zed or Zee” of course. Missed the Y, that’s embarrassing 😅

@sinkingpoint 🤣 - I do like Zed though, not because I think it’s a good editor (i mean it is from what i tested but i can’t pay the switching cost right now), but because it pronounces the letter the way Australias pronounce Z not like here in the US (Zeeeeee…)

Am I the only one that starts to get confused about all the z?? tools around? Zed, Zig, Zod, it's a bit silly

Also I hate The Wiggles for accommodating this in their alphabet songs (when they get to end of alphabet instead of making a judgement call on one way of pronouncing the letter they instead say “W, X, Zed or Zee… now i know my ABC, blah blah blah”. I mean come on… pick a lane!

11.30pm after landing in LGA in New York after meeting-packed day in Chicago and the airport is packed with folks leaving, more so than any Australian airport I’ve ever seen at its busiest as a bunch of planes land at once on a “normal” day. Scary: Humans quickly normalize scale.

A really interesting read on LibreSSL and its journey of its fork from OpenSSL: openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan1… By the numbers: OpenSSL 1.0.1g was a 388,000 line code base. About 90,000 lines of C source code deleted, about 150,000 lines of files. Approximately at 500,000 line unidiff.

@juliusvolz @PrometheusIO @chronosphereio Got it, that makes a lot of sense! I can’t emphasize enough how much easier and straight forward it is to build complex queries knowing the cardinality+speed/latency for sub-parts of query and easily doing side by side analysis of LHS v RHS label matching to fix mismatches, etc.

So brilliant to see PromLens w/ complex query visual editing, PromQL JOIN interactive explain/debugging, label & size of result set per sub-statement in the query now part of @PrometheusIO. Here's to making things that stand the test of time & move the entire industry forward.

@sinkingpoint Kind of a crazy fallback, i wonder if there’s some esoteric try/catch and just inlines on failure?

Someone broke JSON parsing on the Melbourne trains 😬

@ChrisChinch @PersesDev I actually don’t know yet 🤣 Will let you know if I do 👍 I have a lot of other travel around that and may need to see the kids in between it or risk feeling awful hah.

@roskilli @PersesDev You’ll be in Berlin? I’m leaving close to these dates for some other events, but otherwise around

Hope folks are gearing up to hear about the latest all things Prom at PromCon and from Eric about @PersesDev OSS (Apache 2) which is re-imagining a purely observability focused visualization, graphing and debugging UX designed from the ground up to leverage the best of PromQL.

Additionally our sales engineers shot many complex demo videos each with their own environment setup and teardown (also frequently refined after several rounds of feedback, some feedback coming directly from Martin himself as well as Jeff our head of product in the final hours).

🧵 Leading the Magic Quadrant! Stats: 34 Chronauts poured in many many hours over months on our submission, >300 questions answered on one of the most complex spreadsheets I have ever collaborated on with a large group (we had to lock rows), we also exchanged >1,000 Slack msgs