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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 09/09/2026

TIL ham (as in ham radio) is not an acronym!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymolo...

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Spinning Ham Meme Animation

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 08/12/2025

a TON of great courses and certs via Linux Foundation Education 🍎 🐧 💚 are discounted thru Tues Dec 9th go! go! go! ->https://training.linuxfoundation.org/cyber-week-2025

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/11/2025

when you call console.log() this is what happens

The "Log Lady" from Twin Peaks consoling her log

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OpenObservability Talks 🎙️ @openobservability.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 July episode is out! 📢 Highlights from the @cncf.io 's first Open Observability Summit last month. With @horovits.bsky.social, @hrexed.bsky.social and Alok Bhide. Listen/Watch: 🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPa... Recap post: 👉 medium.com/p/d42c8826d6...

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OpenObservability Talks 🎙️ @openobservability.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Did you miss the first-ever Open Observability Summit, which took place last month in Denver by @cncf.io? Stay tuned to this month's episode with all the highlights. coming out soon! 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... 📺 www.youtube.com/@openobserva... @hrexed.bsky.social @horovits.bsky.social

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justin from the internet @threlk.net · 05/05/2025

and the reality is all data is produced. you design an instrument to measure something be it sentiment or temperature or frequency of occurrence and map your underlying signal to a useful construct even meters and celsius do not inherently exist absent the tool used to measure them!

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 01/04/2025

eeeee finished blocking my latest finished knit project plus put the leftovers to use and crocheted this fun little hood yarn is from the aptly named Blue Sky Fibers and is the squishiest, softest cotton 10/10 would knit again #knitting #fiberarts #crochet #knitsky

simple t-shirt made of knit stitches with 2 by 2 rib along the hems

side view of the hood, loosely crocheted mesh with a tie at the chin

back view of the hood showing the back seam down the middle

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 31/03/2025

still getting settled post-SRECon and so far have: ✅ filled out the #srecon post-event survey ⌨️ treated myself to an IBM keyboard from Free Geek as a reward for delivering "live, laugh, log" 🐈‍⬛ let Norman sniff every inch of my luggage

grainy photo of the 1984 IBM M2 keyboard from ebay

an adorable black cat is comfortably loafed in half of an open suitcase

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 28/02/2025

do you remember your first PR? i do bc it was so joyously received back in my PeopleOps days I had to make a very tiny PR to update some link in the product org docs so many devs and EM's were stoked to see a PeopleOps'er contributing I got many nice emojis and comments it was lovely

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a colorful bird is standing on a black surface .

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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Coming tomorrow, the next episode of the @voidincidents.bsky.social podcast.

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 26/02/2025

revisiting Noa Levi's amaze Monitorama talk "How we tricked engineers into utilizing distributed tracing" imho a must watch for anyone working on adopting/expanding tracing usage www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsv... #OTel #OpenTelemetry #o11y #observability #tracing #monitoring

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Monitorama PDX 2024 - How we tricked engineers into utilizing distributed tracing

YouTube video by Monitorama

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 25/02/2025

tbh I got this on a whim and mostly to use up the last of my #CNCF Store credits from volunteering as co-Track Chair for KubeCon but ngl... it’s actually my new fave hoodie. it’s SO cozy 😅

Paige giving a thumbs up in a fuzzy blue gopher hoodie - the hood is the head of Goldie

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 25/02/2025

pssst… I did a thing 👀 join me on a journey through the vast seas of cloud-native observability! 🌊⚓ I’ll break down key terms, concepts, and need-to-knows in a friendly way first up an intro to cardinality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNh... #o11y #observability #tech #cloud #cloudnative #monitoring

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O11yology - What is Cardinality

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 19/02/2025

data storytelling is an art Observable has perfected "This heatmap previously revealed a bug where we were loading 200+ notebooks to serve a gallery of only 4–9; by fixing the bug, we reduced the total number of >50KB responses by more than half!" observablehq.observablehq.cloud/framework-ex...

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 17/02/2025

kicked off my Monday reading Is Ops A Bullshit Job? from @danslimmon.bsky.social "Operations entails constant negotiation between these two spheres: the abstract sphere of software, and the much larger, more complex sociotechnical sphere." 💯 blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/i...

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Is ops a bullshit job?

I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely po…

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 07/02/2025

personally love a metaphor when explaining tech stuff, esp in the world of #o11y where terms are overloaded/misunderstood/misapplied I landed on this postal service metaphor 📫 last year when trying to suss out wtf a telemetry pipeline was (more here: thenewstack.io/telemetry-pi...)

So, What Are Agents and Collectors?
If a telemetry pipeline's job is to collect, process and export telemetry data, then what are agents and collectors for? If your head is already spinning, trust me, I've been there. When | first started exploring telemetry pipelines, | wanted to define clear, universal distinctions between agents, collectors and telemetry pipelines.

But the deeper | dug, the more | realized that these terms don't always map neatly to strict definitions — different teams and vendors use them in slightly different ways. That said, it's still helpful to have a general frame of reference.

Agents: The First Mile of Telemetry
Agents are like your local mail carrier — they operate at the source, collecting telemetry from a specific application or system and forwarding it onward to a central location. They typically run alongside applications as sidecars or on the 'same host, focusing on that “first mile" of data delivery.

Collectors: The Middle Mile Aggregators
Collectors are like a regional post office, gathering telemetry data from multiple agents (or directly from applications and infrastructure) before forwarding it to its final destination. Collectors can receive and route telemetry.

Telemetry Pipelines: The Entire System
A telemetry pipeline is like the entire postal system and is responsible for handling observabilty data end-to-end. It does not just forward data but can normalize, enrich, filter and dynamically route telemetry based on your needs.

Slack from me:

| have a silly question....I'm trying to land on vendor/project-neutral definitions for: agent, collector, telemetry pipeline But am hung up on how OpenTelemetry talks about it. The OTel docs say their Collector can receive data, process it (aka what a telemetry pipeline does) but in OTel terms the Collector is made up of pipelines... Am | accurate in thinking this is a difference in semantics? Where Fluent Bit calls itself a telemetry pipeline in the singular despite being able to "house" multiple pipelines and OTel Collector calls itself a collection of pipelines?

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 06/02/2025

I can judge how my week/brain is faring by: the state of my desk & the number of browser tabs (and windows) I have open I'm going to give this week a B- so far... how bout you?

Picture of my desk set up, a wall full of surreal art prints. The desk is cluttered but not totally taken over by tech, wires, lights, and notebooks.

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 13/12/2024

I know Norman hates jazz & metalcore but have FINALLY discovered music he does like: guqin & everything Nature's Spirit does on harp he's achieved levels of relaxation and peace I can only dream of #CatsOfBsky #cats #Meowsky open.spotify.com/playlist/6C9... www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cl...

Norman a sleek black cat is curled up into a ball with his tail tucked in clearly in deep rest and relaxation

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

There is a meme format going around Bluesky where people share an image of an arrow pointing to the bottom right, where the alt badge is on Bluesky. The gag or punch line of this meme is that when the user selects the alt badge, they get a joke. This is not the intended purpose of alt text.

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 04/12/2024

while backend/infra folks deal with *too* much telemetry that is SO not the case for our friends in mobile (yet!) as I learned in the latest Off-Call ft. @bidetofevil.wtf but why tho? and what can be done? 👂Listen to find out chronosphere.io/resource/off... #mobile #monitoring #observability

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 27/11/2024

after spending all day editing transcripts I found the perfect little brain break neal.fun/perfect-circ...

A very good but not perfect circle drawn onscreen with a score of 96.3% from neal.fun

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Sebastian Vietz @sreinsights.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

🔍 **Optimizing Observability: Sending Only What Matters** *Lessons from a $15,000 log event that delivered 0 value.* 💡 **Every event has a price.** If telemetry isn’t actionable or valuable, it’s not just adding noise—it’s burning money. Here’s how to avoid that trap: ...

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 22/11/2024

bringing over one of my fave hashtags from mastodon.... #3GoodThings - got my 2y anniversary block from Chronosphere! - getting better at controlling the milk pour for lattes - Norman's new catsle arrived and after he ignored it all day I caught him checking it out in earnest

paige chomping on a small wooden block engraved 2 years

picture of a latte with swirly yet clear and distinct milk foam on top

In a darkened office there is Norman a jet black shorthair cat perched atop a cat tree

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Paige Cruz @paigerduty.com · 21/11/2024

hello bluesky i'm paige cruz aka paigerduty 📟 ❤️ interests include: #OSS instrumentation, #observability AND monitoring, all fiber arts (esp. spinning and quilting), #SRE, fountain pens, lichen and crows. I blog at paigerduty.com and host a podcast Off-Call offcall.simplecast.com #intro

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a blue bird with an orange beak is standing in front of a blue sky with clouds

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