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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Opinionated is a design posture, not a seal of quality or fit-for-purpose. Adoption is earned and defaults don’t create desire. Stuff built with Field of Dreams fallacy cant be normalised by calling them opinionated. BTW, majestic opinionated cathedrals that nobody wants to visit do exist.

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Explaining robust-yet-fragile in a community of HSE practitioners and contrasting it with Hollnagel's RAG. Boy! This is way outside my competence envelope.

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This could be us, but you won’t let me shift your paradigm. #KuhnianJokes

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A lot less guilty using harvested rainwater for garden, instead of from waternet network. #SimpleWins

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Humans naturally adapt and compensate for broken designs and component failures. Well adapted cognitive work masks difficulties that people face to get their job done - from themselves and from others. That's the law of fluency. I didn't make it up.

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ever wondered what powers FOSDEM media boxes? Checkout this talk.

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Beyond just the language setting ourselves up for failure, "root cause" have deeper issues. For me it triggers anxiety everytime i hear it. @allspaw.bsky.social has articulated it very well the issues here. Recommended material for SRE-201: github.com/readme/guide...

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What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’

Instead of finding the ‘root cause’ to incidents and issues, @allspaw says it’s more accurate to try and break down what created the ‘perfect storm’:

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@mccricardo.bsky.social just spoke about incident response at #FOSDEM. It's a new dawn of SRE and related crafts at #FOSDEM beyond tools and framework. Folks in the resilience engineering community, let's go with devroom proposal for FOSDEM 2026. @resilienceinsoftware.org

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The 9th edition of Monitoring and Observability Devroom at #FOSDEM Here we go🚀 #OTel

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

End of #FOSDEM 2025, day 1 Oh these are well designed doors, I think. Doesn't fit into Norman door category.

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Front row seat at an almost packed Janson auditorium at ULB. 14 years of #systemd

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Good news! The sound issues in the #FOSDEM Free Java Devroom has just been fixed. Thanks to the volunteers that worked on this problem since the morning 💕

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Folks visiting #FOSDEM, specifically #SRE and adjacent roles, want to talk about the state of incident postmortems, human factors, what you learned from incidents etc? Let's do an unofficial #BoF #LFI

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

You have seen #FOSDEM full. Have you seen the longass #FOSDEM queue to the containers devroom?

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Folks swiping through YouTube shorts at full volume in a Business Class lounge is the living proof that money doesn't buy common civic sense. #fail

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

As an Engineering Manager/peer engineer do you put on a poker face while #interviewing a potential candidate? I've been just me in all of my interviews but today I went to the other side of the table and faces stone cold poker faces. 🫠

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Praveen Kottarathil @praveenkp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Next Monday, 24-Nov-24 is the third anniversary of the infamous #log4shell vulnerability disclosure. Remember the scramble to identify what in your estate has the dependency & are exploitable? How did your discovery & governance game improved since then?

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