Lyndon Brown
@asklyndon
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Co-Founder/CEO @ Prequel (https://t.co/sR15nf4AU7); Engineer; Former Mandiant (acquired by Google); Former Endgame (acquired by Elastic)
Washington, DC (via Bronx, NY)
Joined September 2016
🚨 Bitnami is deprecating its free image catalog. ⚠️ Brownouts have started ⛔️ Full shutdown Sept 29 Risk: ImagePullBackOff, stale images, broken Helm charts. 👉 How to prepare: audit, update, override. Full breakdown + mitigation tips ↓
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I'll be managing community relations @prequel_dev Looking forward to seeing and exploring the consumer facing side of OSS Software
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This month's Detect covers: - Lessons from an LLM–triggered outage - How to get more out of OpenTelemetry with Common Reliability Enumerations (CREs) - Tips for avoiding application migration pain - Quick hits on recent Google & Cloudflare incidents Link below 👇🏼
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in this brief clip @snowboardvstree breaksdown why CREs are long overdue. Be sure to checkout the full episode to learn more.
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Watch/Listen to the episode on your preferred platform: PlatformEngineeringPod: https://t.co/1uEznIFyXQ Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/9Cbi4dJTYq YouTube:
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👏 Our Co-founder and CTO, Tony Meehan, joins the #platformengineering podcast with @coryodaniel . They discuss how #CREs are transforming reliability and making it easier for teams to keep their applications up and running in the age of AI. Link to the full episode below!
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wanted to also shoutout @ahmetb and team who do an incredible job maintaining
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decided to share a few of my favorite things:
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Kubernetes is insanely powerful and becomes much easier to manage when you extend kubectl with...
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there's a lot of active debate about the future of open source. @prequel_dev believes in open source and we are excited to announce that CRE and preq are now 100% open. here are the details... @snowboardvstree and I founded @prequel_dev to bring our vision of
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Common Reliability Enumerations (CREs) developed by the community 📖 - prequel-dev/cre
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there's a lot of active debate about the future of open source. @prequel_dev believes in open source and we are excited to announce that CRE and preq are now 100% open. here are the details... @snowboardvstree and I founded @prequel_dev to bring our vision of
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Common Reliability Enumerations (CREs) developed by the community 📖 - prequel-dev/cre
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🚀 CRE + preq are now 100% open source. 🛠️ Community‑driven rules & problem detector to catch reliability issues fast — free for humans and AI agents. ⭐ repos https://t.co/hPaSHCTiLE
https://t.co/GXOWpcletF 💻 binaries https://t.co/9hPlInb4Jg 📝 https://t.co/tkEDxNlCKJ
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🚨 Dropping soon: Two new open source projects to spot bugs, misconfigs & other pitfalls — before they bite. Host: Kelsey Hightower + @snowboardvstree. 🧠 No pitch. No slides. Just code, Q&A, and instant repo access. ✅ Tricks you can use today. Be first in. #reliability
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🚨 April issue of Detect is out — and it’s a banger. ✅ OpenAI 429s (spoiler: not just traffic) ✅ Cloudflare’s rollout gone wrong ✅ Memory lies devs still believe ✅ A smarter take on availability from Riot Games For the engineers on the hook when things break. Link below👇
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Big news! We're bringing Kelsey and our free problem detection workshop to #SanFrancisco. ✅ Learn from Kelsey's experience at Google ✅ See sew ways to detect/mitigate application failure ✅ Free access to the Civo Navigate conf ($450 value). Space is limited. Link below 👇
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🚨 Outages, debugging, and scaling chaos! 🚨 OpenAI and Canva faced downtime, a Kubernetes add-on showed its quirks, and debugging Rust proves no walk in the park..... Our latest newsletter is out. https://t.co/BhBjKYmqvH
#Kubernetes #debug #SRE #reliability #problemdetection
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OpenAI and Canva outages, Kubernetes failures, debugging Rust and more...in detect #10
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Proactively searching for these anti-patterns is hard enough. Doing something about it before it explodes is even harder. This is why I like community driven problem detection. You can leverage their experience on top of yours to help make the case for action.
Days ago, I detected a query in a system in development that immediately triggered an alert on me. I communicated this finding to the team but wasn't firm enough to force an immediate change or fix it. I deeply regret it. This is what happened later: When multiple users
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Kafka connect bug causes data loss for all source & sink connectors (KAFKA-18073). Fixed, but unreleased. Interim workaround: set errors.retry.timeout to -1 (default value of 0 causes data loss). Monitor total-records-skipped metric to detect when this happens.
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Congratulations, @asklyndon, Tony, and the team. The transfer of "threat intelligence" from security to software-reliability is super exciting.
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🎉 We’re thrilled to officially announce Prequel and our seed round led by @Work_Bench. @TechCrunch covers our founders Tony (@snowboardvstree) & Lyndon (@asklyndon) Read more: @TechCrunch
https://t.co/02anzNrpKy Prequel Blog: https://t.co/7Wl5Tdg7u4
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