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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 17/07/2026

Hello future GitHubber! Know that this HTML response will be vomited upon all failures regardless of client, API, or request type surface from now until eternity. So keep it tight.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 27/03/2026

Serverless Lambda on managed servers

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 17/03/2026

Backends implemented on split ingestion pipelines are in for a rough time

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 10/03/2026

Just wait until there's a leap second

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 26/01/2026

Are there any known solutions to setting up Claude Code authentication against a subscription plan in a headless, ephemeral environment?

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 21/01/2026

I might write some code today just to feel something

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 09/01/2026

Is there anyway to write Cloudformation without writing Cloudformation? Or is the answer to just have Claude spit it out? I used goformation in the past and found it useful, but sadly it looks like it's dead: github.com/awslabs/gofo...

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 15/12/2025

It's jump-start-the-car level of cold this morning.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 01/12/2025

Now updated with our Python processor support. Just drop into an S3 bucket and pass their URIs via env.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 28/11/2025

Just released an experimental #AWS Firelens ECS log router based on Rotel. This replaces the Fluent Bit container, supporting native OpenTelemetry pipelines. Let us know what you think: github.com/streamfold/a...

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GitHub - streamfold/aws-firelens-rotel: AWS Firelens log router based on Rotel

AWS Firelens log router based on Rotel. Contribute to streamfold/aws-firelens-rotel development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 25/11/2025

Thanks to ClickHouse for inviting us to share this post. Had a lot of fun digging into performance benchmarking work again!

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 23/11/2025

That sounds great. If we can help contribute or review anything let us know. Looking forward to it.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 19/11/2025

is antigravity packing a kafka broker?

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 18/11/2025

lol, I vaguely remember those. Mostly remember gentoo was the only way to get a linux distro working on the uni's Opterons at the time.

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Netlify @netlify.com · 30/09/2025

Vercel ➝ Netlify migration made simple. ✅ Checklist ✅ Next.js tips ✅ Best practices Start here → docs.netlify.com/resources/ch...

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Vercel to Netlify migration checklist

A comprehensive guide for migrating your projects from Vercel to Netlify, including Next.js setup, configuration migration, and production readiness steps.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 30/09/2025

It looks like Librato is finally sunset today, not a bad 14 year run. www.reddit.com/r/Solarwinds...

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From the Solarwinds community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Solarwinds community

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 27/09/2025

The front lines look rough

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 25/09/2025

Time to put Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist on the resume

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Ray Jenkins @ramond.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It required me doing ungodly things.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 15/09/2025

It's great to see Datadog adding agentless OTLP intake now, initially just with metrics and logs. Useful for one shot SDK integrations, but it's also interesting if it'll allow for smaller OTLP exporter only collector deployments in the future. docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetr...

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Datadog OTLP Intake Endpoint

Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 27/08/2025

The classic file descriptor vtable approach was a pretty useful pattern when building user-level CP/R back in the day. It meant we could just swap the FD pointer quickly based on whether it was virtualized or not. oshub.org/projects/ret...

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Object-oriented design patterns on OSHub

[My scheduler operations implementation] A benefit of working on your own operating system is that you’re free from the usual "restraints" of coll...

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 20/08/2025

The glue in many of these cases are the bindings built on PyO3. We found it powerful enough to allow us to go from Rust->Python->Rust when building native Python processor integration for Rotel.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 19/08/2025

When you've got to use up the garden tomatoes that are about to go bad: sandwish.netlify.app/ac70ab777318...

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Too Many Tomatoes

A truly delicious creation. Stack yours and share it with the world!

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 08/08/2025

Number one reason I now add contact numbers to my phone from individuals that may only need to call once or twice, like a contractor.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 05/08/2025

The past 7 months @ramond.bsky.social and I have worked on the hypothesis that telemetry data requires a systems approach for high-perf, predictable and resource efficient collection at scale. We're excited to announce our progress so far and hope that the community can join us: dub.sh/A7sI0Tm

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Rotel: Fast and Efficient OpenTelemetry Collection in Rust | Rotel

Observability shouldn't be a resource hog, that’s why at the end of last year, we started an ambitious new project – Rotel. We’ve been excited to see the rise of OpenTelemetry as a vendor neutral stan...

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 04/08/2025

There's something satisfying about finding and digging out potatoes from the garden. Never know how many are down there and in what condition.

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Ray Jenkins @ramond.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Had a great time sharing rotel.dev at #OpenO11ySummit + #OTelDay with @mike.heffner.io. Blown away by how many people had already heard of it and tried it. “Yeah we tried it and it was 8x faster than our existing solution”. We thought today was our first official announcement 🤣.

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Rotel - High Performance, Resource Efficient OpenTelemetry Collector | Rotel

High-performance, Resource Efficient OpenTelemetry Collector.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 18/06/2025

Google's truncating of the Github repo name in search results is not confusing at all.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 22/05/2025

I'll be heading out to San Francisco for a few days next week. If you're around and want to talk about low overhead OpenTelemetry use in AWS Lambda, let's chat! github.com/streamfold/r...

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GitHub - streamfold/rotel-lambda-extension: AWS Lamba Extension of the Lightweight Rotel Collector

AWS Lamba Extension of the Lightweight Rotel Collector - streamfold/rotel-lambda-extension

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Aleksey Skorobogaty @desmount.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Excellent article on positioning domain engineering between product engineering and infrastructure engineering. I fully agree with the financial model section. However, I prefer to call it ‘platform engineering: the hard parts,’ simply because in the middle, we face more volatile semantics.

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Infrastructure Gravity & Domain Engineering | Jack Danger

The following is an excerpt from Executive Engineering. “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in The Little Prince Each company draws its own ...

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 02/05/2025

Which year of garlic are you on?

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 02/05/2025

I missed that it was feature flagging and observability synergy week

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 30/04/2025

Another reason, past cold start times, I'm glad we focused on optimizing our extension initialization time. It would be great if SecretsManager API calls were faster, since that's an often the long pole in the tent for init time. github.com/streamfold/r...

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GitHub - streamfold/rotel-lambda-extension: AWS Lamba Extension of the Lightweight Rotel Collector

AWS Lamba Extension of the Lightweight Rotel Collector - streamfold/rotel-lambda-extension

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 25/04/2025

Coming soon: Interstate Data Transfer Costs

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 02/04/2025

For the dozens of us out there, this post was the missing piece in getting ollama working on Fedora with Nvidia. Now I'm able to vibe code with the best of em: RustRover + continue.dev + ollama. blog.lazyhacker.com/2024/09/inst...

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Installing Nvidia and CUDA drivers on Fedora for Ollama

Ollama , a tool that lets you run Large Language Models (LLMs) on a local machine, supports the use of GPUs for better performance if you ha...

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 28/03/2025

Shipped a small demo of OpenTelemetry traces -> Datadog for monitoring Remote MCP server availability. It's early days for MCP, and remote deployments in particular, so let us know what would be useful: github.com/streamfold/m...

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GitHub - streamfold/mcp-demo-server-otel: Demo of OpenTelemetry + MCP Remote Server

Demo of OpenTelemetry + MCP Remote Server. Contribute to streamfold/mcp-demo-server-otel development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 27/03/2025

I wanted to write something like this so many times when I was at Netlify! We always decided it was best to not make a fuss. Now I'm not at Netlify, I still believe abstracting the hosting layer via adapters makes for better framework architecture overall, as well as being better for the ecosystem.

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Next.js Deployment Challenges: Why platforms need better open source collaboration

Discover the 6 key challenges platforms face when supporting Next.js deployments, including the lack of adapter support and undocumented behaviors. Learn how Netlify is working with OpenNext to build ...

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 12/03/2025

At some scale a GH personal access token of yours is always expiring.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 11/03/2025

I've definitely found this to be true and trying to debug it via traditional means like Google and SO is impossible since no human would have made that same error.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 16/01/2025

Yeah, honestly we used LD on a previous large migration project that probably used over a 100 FF's and it mostly got the job done. Moving traffic flows with user FF's always felt like a mismatch though.

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · 15/01/2025

Absolutely important. I'm curious if anyone has decoupled the needs of backend FF use from typical user-visible feature rollout FF.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication. Launched 13 hours ago.

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