Bartłomiej Płotka
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Senior SWE TL @Google | ex Principal @RedHat | @ThanosMetrics @PrometheusIO | Bsky: https://t.co/ZzsR3O48hy | Efficient Go 📖 @OReillyMedia
London, England
Joined October 2015
My "Efficient Go" book with @OReillyMedia has been released!🎉 I wrote some words about the book, content and generally my experience writing it (with photos!): https://t.co/7s2s6yI2wQ Good for a slow Saturday--maybe it will help you to decide to write your own book? 🤗
[NEW RELEASE] Efficient Go -- Author @bwplotka provides the tools and knowledge required to make your systems faster and less resource-hungry. https://t.co/osraCNkhxy
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Woke up today to my blog post appearing on the top 10 of hacker news today! Sounds like my site is up on down due to concurrent traffic... 🙃 switched to higher provider tier, but if it's down, here is a backup link: https://t.co/kJUiONLFjl
Side projects, blog, podcasting is hard with 2 small kids, but I eventually managed to find time for a blog! (PS: I had to switch to 5am routine 🙈) Wrote some words about @DuffieldJesse #lazygit OSS tool and what we can learn from its UX. Enjoy! 🤗 https://t.co/Ywp6mCxetk
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100% this. We are in the cycle of "unifying things", which is like going back to monoliths for DBs, collection, SDKs etc. Tempting but maybe utopia? BUT no one blocks ppl from trying and learning on their mistakes (: We will see in 5y cycle to move back to dedicated solutions.
There are DevOps and SRE engineers who think that a unified database for metrics and logs is a good idea. This isn't a good idea from an operations perspective because of the following reasons: - Lower availability. If something wrong happens with the stored logs, there are high
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Side projects, blog, podcasting is hard with 2 small kids, but I eventually managed to find time for a blog! (PS: I had to switch to 5am routine 🙈) Wrote some words about @DuffieldJesse #lazygit OSS tool and what we can learn from its UX. Enjoy! 🤗 https://t.co/Ywp6mCxetk
bwplotka.dev
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some...
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@sseraphini sooner than expected https://t.co/aY4LdvsMXc
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FYI, @CloudNativeFdn KubeCon Europe (23-26th March) CFP closes in 3 days (12th October). What fun talks do you plan to propose? (: https://t.co/2vditdxCkz What'd you like to like to hear more about? Maybe you'd like to co-speak? Happy to mentor/co-speak with passionate ppl!
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities from 23-26, March. Join our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as...
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PromCon is one month away! 🤗 We wrote all your need to know on our blog:
prometheus.io
An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.
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Fun bugs happen, let's see if you can spot them (without looking on comments)! (: Quiz#1: Why "make check" will never detect any formatting errors in the following snippet: https://t.co/3vuW6aDTl0
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quizes_total{} 1: Why "make check" will never detect any formatting errors? - Makefile
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Thinking about starting writing more again (blog posting, social media).. should I? I have some engineering/oss/mentoring topics queued for too long 🙈
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Ever dreamed to be mentored by @PrometheusIO community; get skilled in high performance monitoring databases, @golang and help #opensource on the way? Apply today on the LFX website 🤗
Applications for @PrometheusIO LFX mentorships open today! We have some highly impactful projects this time, around Prometheus OTel UX, Remote Write 2.0, and Native summaries. Go apply to work with some really cool folks, and learn while you're at it! 🔥 https://t.co/Jgh20npYrK
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Applications for @PrometheusIO LFX mentorships open today! We have some highly impactful projects this time, around Prometheus OTel UX, Remote Write 2.0, and Native summaries. Go apply to work with some really cool folks, and learn while you're at it! 🔥 https://t.co/Jgh20npYrK
github.com
👩🏿🎓👨🏽🎓👩🏻🎓CNCF Mentoring + CommunityBridge + Summer of Code - cncf/mentoring
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@Saumya_Codes @ThanosMetrics @cncf Thanks for being such an amazing mentee and for writing the blog post! We really enjoyed working with you too 🤗 Let's continue working together in OSS! 💪
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Whether you're catching waves, exploring trails or just kicking back with a cold drink by the water, South Walton has everything you need for the ultimate guys’ trip.
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Today is a good day! #golang
https://t.co/OoPl3fRKY6 "For the foreseeable future, the Go team will stop pursuing syntactic language changes for error handling. We will also close all open and incoming proposals that concern themselves primarily with the syntax of error
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Go team plans around error handling support
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First time going to Japan! Come watch my talk if you're also going to KubeCon :)
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Our KubeCon talk recording is out: https://t.co/Rg735uheT3 What if we can define a schema for important @PrometheusIO metrics, version it, allow users to pin PromQL metric to a certain schema version and solve metric renaming problems? 😍
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My talk at #KubeCon is out now! I partnered with Antoine Thébaud to dive into innovative dashboard design with PersesDev. Watch our discussion here: https://t.co/2Qh7ncyEek You can also access the slides at:
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A smart Christmas gift that boosts creativity, builds imagination, and keeps kids off screens — the LED Note Board lights up their ideas in neon color.
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Designing software should happen while you’re building it. Not before. You can do some bits beforehand, but in my experience, projects that do well are free to grow organically in any direction they like, not by following some predestined roadmap.
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Go is the right language to reimplement your typescript in.
Go is the right language to reimplement the typescript compiler on.
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I'm super excited about my work at @grafana and what's planned for my team in the next few quarters. upstream and mentorship are my two favorite things about open source and we manage to combine and make those the highest priority for MONTHS ❤️
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$4B Lost in Memecoin Scam. Tokens like MELANIA & LIBRA exploited celebrity names to lure investors into a pump-and-dump scheme. Thousands lost billions. Read the full story.
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