Leon Adato
@leonadato
Itinerant wandering IT storyteller & DevOps ferret. #Monitoring, #Observability & automation fanboi. Author @ . Host of TechnicallyReligious.com podcast. He/him. No #manels. Ask me about my grandkids.
New Post! What "Project Hail Mary" Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 3) Outer Solar System Entering the area of gas and ice giants What follows is part 3 of my ongoing observations and ideas inspired by “Project Hail Mary”. You can find part 1 and part 2 linked https://adatosystems.com/?p=29899
New Post! What "Project Hail Mary" Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 2) Inner Planets Mid-Flight Checklist What follows is a continuation of my observations and ideas inspired by “Project Hail Mary”, which I began back in part 1 of the series. https://bit.ly/44QJoBz
New Post! What "Project Hail Mary" Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 1) Pre-Launch Checklist What follows are some observations and ideas that are inspired by “Project Hail Mary”, both the book by Andy Weir and the movie it inspired. https://bit.ly/4xXBhk3
That's it folks. I've achieved peak BlueSky. Nothing else I do here will be as great as this moment.
Who's headed to #RSA? If you are, come find me in booth 6353 to talk #monitoring, #observability, and #telemetry. (And to snag some of the coolest swag of the conference. Trust me on this one)
TFW packing for DevOps Not Dead ("dnd") next week and you gotta bring a whole different type of gear that typical tech conferences.
New Post! BLOG: How NOT to Answer the Salary Question Before you read a single line more, I will give the usual but still important caveats – this blog is my opinion, based on my experiences. Take it with a big ol’ grain of salt. bit.ly/4rU5aht
I tweaked my gear and setup, and I'm ready to start the 2026 video season!
I had the privilege of speaking at SREDay Paris recently. You can watch my talk - "Network O11y: Underappreciated and More Important Than Ever" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2H... And all the SREDay Paris talks here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9g...
New Post! ...And Sometimes the Bear Gets You I got scammed. This isn’t a story about how “…once upon a time, I got scammed.” It wasn’t a younger, less experienced, more trusting me. No. bit.ly/4pf41A0
New Post! ZMANIM-WP: Free Time After running the Zmanim-WP plugin as a freemium offering for a while, I came to the decision to stop hiding some of the features behind a paywall, and let the user base decide what it’s worth. bit.ly/44Na7iO
I'm prepping slides for my talk at #SREday Amsterdam next week and thought I'd share this one. If you are in the neighborhood, it's going to be a fun conference for everyone! sreday.com/2025-amsterd...
NEW POST! Semantic Caching: What We Measured, Why It Matters (This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Semantic caching promises to make AI systems faster and cheaper by reducing duplicate calls to large language models (LLMs). bit.ly/3JskgtP
NEW POST! AI CURMUDGEON: AI is a backhoe It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular. bit.ly/4qnDhhJ
NEW POST! Here’s the proof: What the fastest sites on the web have in common (This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) 60% of Gen Z won’t engage with a slow-loading website. In today’s digital economy, that’s a deal-breaker. bit.ly/3KXeReQ
New Post! Software migration: Pain vs Risk “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced my fair share of software upgrades, migrations, and replacements. bit.ly/4n8XtRI
NEW POST! Observability isn’t about the tool. It’s about the truth (This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way. bit.ly/3J1Spk6
NEW POST! From the source to the edge: the six agent types you can’t ignore (This post originally appeared on Catchpoint.com) Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators. bit.ly/46UnuxQ