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Simon Aronsson

@simme.dev

Observability aficionado helping you prevent your 💻 from going 💥. Currently at Canonical, previously at Grafana, k6, HiQ.

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Simon Aronsson @simme.dev · 29/04/2026

A vector database full of stale tickets and decisions that only happened in Slack is not institutional memory. It is archaeology with better search. New post on documentation, intent debt, and why writing is now infrastructure: simme.dev/posts/the-en...

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The end of "Just ask Sarah"

Sarah is the person who knows why a service was split, why an abstraction exists, why a strange constraint shaped the current design, and why the obvious fix was rejected three quarters ago.

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Simon Aronsson @simme.dev · 19/04/2026

If a senior engineer's code is above criticism, you don't have code review. You have approval theater. Boring code is an organizational symptom, and the codebase gives it away. simme.dev/posts/boring... #softwareengineering #ai

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Boring code is an organizational tell

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Simon Aronsson @simme.dev · 17/03/2026

I just published a blog post on an experiment I did with building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector. It's a work in progress, and was mainly built to scratch my own itch, but nonetheless -- enjoy! ubuntu.com/blog/buildin... #observability #otel #o11y #sre

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Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector | Ubuntu

Teams continuously deploy programmable telemetry pipelines to production, without having access to a dry-run mode. At the same time, most organizations lack staging environments that resemble producti...

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