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Martin Thwaites

2 years

Quick reminder that people are still finding the fediverse, so keep coming back to you contact lists on the various sites you follow them to see their new handles. Mine is @martindotnet @hachyderm .io

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

Them: "I won't use C# because of Microsoft, they're evil and might start charging me." Also them: "I develop my Typescript codebase using VSCode and store it on Github, then I publish my packages to NPM".

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 months

Once again, for those in the back... * WSL exists and just works, no dual boot for Linux. * #dotnet runs on Linux, ARM, and even scratch containers flawlessly * VScode and Rider are great editors/IDEs for C# * People other than Microsoft can make good .NET libraries

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Martin Thwaites

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4 months

Are people honestly saying that a startup, hiring 6 devs and paying them, is worried about paying $49/month/dev for an IDE? Like, that feels like a failed startup to me? They're likely paying >$50k each, plus probably getting them an M3 ($2k). But $49 is a blocker? Seriously?

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Martin Thwaites

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1 year

The amount of times I've been asked about the performance impacts of adding telemetry to #dotnet applications using #opentelemetry I had to actually write a post on it. TL;DR it's small, and if you're bothered at that level, maybe consider moving Rust.

Does OpenTelemetry in .NET Cause Performance Degradation?

Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer is “yes,” but context is important. I get this question so often that I thought it was time to get some stats on it.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can write modern, highly scalable, applications without Kubernetes

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

I still don't get what people complain about when it comes to #dotnet being hard to do cross platform. I've been coding on Windows, deploying to Linux for ~5 years, since netcore 2.1 (maybe earlier). What's so hard?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

7 years

The agile equivalent of a gun locker... @computerlovers @XPManchester

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

10 months

So that works... Aspire dashboard running without the full Aspire App framework. So hopefully a nice replacement for not having to use Jaeger. Next step... services.AddAspireDashboard(); So that it configures OpenTelemetry too. Aspire for any app in development #dotnetconf

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

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I'm Martin, I've been programming since the mid 90s for some really successful companies. I couldn't even begin to explain what a monad is. You don't need to know about them, you're fine, keep doing what you're doing and being awesome.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Say it with me "CosmosDB is not SQL Server" Devs: "Cosmos is way more expensive than SQL Server" Me: "You used it like SQL Server didn't you..." Seriously, it might have a SQL API, but it's not a Relational DB, stop using it like one.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I've joined the #DevRel team at @honeycombio this week! I'll be joining the amazing team of @mipsytipsy , @lizthegrey and @jessitron in promoting #Observability and #OpenTelemetry to anyone that will hear me.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 days

I actually have no idea what a quick sort is, maybe I did once? If you're worried about whether people know how to do it from memory, and you're working in high-level language, you're doing it wrong. It doesn't show aptitude. It shows you're a horrible person to work for

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asked a candidate to implement quicksort in an interview today suffice to say, they're probably not getting a call back...

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 months

Ok, so this is pretty fun, I've opened a project I created back in 2008, WCF (duplex), .NET 3.5, Winforms, lets look at what I did right and wrong! Lets start with projects... why so many? I got 4 projects down the list before I hit actual code.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Just nerd sniped an Engineering Lead by giving him a @honeycombio heat map query and showing him how to drill into some of the traces... the messages back were glorious... "But that one is taking ages, what's happe... oh... the api is hitting that one... that's not right.."

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Original Definition of #Observability : "Understanding the internal state of your system from the outputs it gives you" Co-opted Definition of #Observability : "SeNd uS aLL YoUR LogS aNd wE WiLl GiVe YoU 200% oBsErVaBiLiTY"

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

Renewed for another year! I'm grateful to be recognised for my community contributions around #OpenTelemetry and generally raising the awareness of #observability in the #dotnet space. #mvpbuzz

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

As someone with an authorative voice and someone who's had titles that seem to make people listen, it's hard to be opinionated without it coming across as a dictatorship where people must do it your way, here's what I've done to try and combat that.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

6 months

My new series on #OpenTelemetry Best Practices is out, first up Naming, the easy one! Because naming things is the easy part right? These should be coming out once a week for the next month or so. Agent/Auto-Instrumentation vs Coded/Manual for next week!

OpenTelemetry Best Practices #1: Naming

In part 1 of this OpenTelemetry Best Practices series, Martin Thwaites goes over naming, where consistency and standardization are key.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

6 years

@naeemsarfraz That grin on your face dude... Nothing compared to what your dad feels I'm sure.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 years

If you buy a book on #microservices , and it's one single book should you trust the author? Surely it should be multiple separate books, and a single book that contains the index, contents and glossary pointing to all the other books, and can be read independently?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

If you're not using this to generate code screenshots you're missing out...

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

Everytime I hear ".NET doesn't have X" when its a library or a class, I cringe a little, what they actually mean is "Microsoft haven't developed X in the BCL" You don't get "Java doesn't X" unless it's to do with the language. Those things exist, just not produced by Microsoft.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 months

If Typescript "could" compile to the CLR, therefore becomes "just another .NET language". Since it's cross platform, will run faster than on node, so it would make sense to switch from node Do we think that the Typescript devs would appreciate being referred to as .NET devs?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 years

@shanselman My wife got a message saying "Don't use zoom, they sell your data to Facebook"... Sent on Facebook messager

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

9 months

There you go, Adding the Aspire dashboard to an existing single App... I'll get a Nuget pushed tomorrow, and hopefully some fixes. Next, get it running in a docker-container standalone.

GitHub - martinjt/aspire-app-extension

Contribute to martinjt/aspire-app-extension development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

Apparently there are still people in the #dotnet world that haven't heard of OpenTelemetry... So apparently I'm not shouting loud enough. Message received :D

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

And then talk about it on LinkedIn using my premium subscription with posts written by ChatGPT.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

Based on a tonne of feedback, OpenTelemetry is setting a DevEx group to work on increasing the usability of the SDKs. OTel is functional, and stable, but the DevEx can be lacking, specifically in Go/JS/TS, but also .NET. I'm tackling the .NET side! excited to see what we can do

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

9 months

PSA for #opentelemetry #dotnet users! The HTTP instrumentation libraries are no longer in pre-release! v1.7.0 of the core and HTTP instrumentations have been released. There's a couple of breaking changes you should look at though!

First stable release of AspNetCore and Http instrumentation libraries · open-telemetry openteleme...

We're excited to announce the release of stable support for OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http and OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore. Key changes in stable version OpenTelemetry.Instrume...

github.com

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

If I had to put my finger on "why Honeycomb" it would have to be democratisation of production debugging focus we have. Debugging production is everyone's responsibility and that's a big focus for us. It's a consideration when we're building all our features.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 months

I want Aspire talks that aren't using a basic demo. I don't believe there are production usecases that make sense for the manifest/azd at scale, and certainly not the dashboard (if you're using a real provider, not AppInsights) I want to be proven wrong, but all talks are basic

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

7 months

The revolution is happening! OpenTelemetry adoption in .NET is taking off, 3 big libraries in the last couple of weeks that have added intentional, and purposeful, tracing and Metrics to them. Is this the year of #OpenTelemetry and #dotnet ?

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@stebets

7 months

Well would you look at that @davidfowl ! My PR to add OpenTelemetry to the .NET RabbitMQ library has been merged. Next up: some improvements to OTel baggage propagation (hi @MartinDotNet ) and some docs + examples! I'll also look at getting this integrated into Aspire (unless

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 years

I kid you not...

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 months

@davidfowl Try again... I was one of the key people that modernised the .NET ecosystem.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

9 months

Having spent the last week fighting #AWS , I'm come to the (unpopular opinion) that it's not a platform built for developer, rather, it's built for infrastructure engineers.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 month

@migueldeicaza Microsoft had a storage outage, at the same time, Crowdstrike pushed an update that broke the whole Internet. Lots of people linking the 2.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

You know those company demos every month that no one signs up for? I signed up for the WEEKLY demo @honeycombio this week, and I'm being told to keep it short as we have too many... "I think we're going to need a bigger slot in future" God I fucking love it here. #culture

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

19 days

I hate having to send responses like this to conferences. This is the work people, it's not just throwing up a sessionize page and then picking stuff out. It's hard, I get it, but ask for help, don't put your head in the sand and shrug when it doesn't happen.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 months

This is the extension for #dotnet #aspire I created to add the OpenTelemetry Collector. This will: * Spin up a collector * Mount the config * Inject the Aspire dashboard endpoint as an exporter * Inject the collector as the exporter for the apps #opentelemetry #o11y

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

On Wednesday I got the #MVPBuzz email! Totally honoured to become part of the community of amazing people that make the ecosystem great. It's recognition of the work I've been doing to evangelise #dotnet and also #observability in the Microsoft space. That means a lot.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

My focus will be on showing developers that Observability isn't just for SRE's and production. Showing how it can help in the development process and help engineers build operable software from day 1 of your project.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

6 months

Mandatory picture has been taken #MVPBuzz

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

@MatthewEGunter @ghohpe @Pfft11523769 @BrandonLive @mipsytipsy Infrastructure is cheap compared to people. Optimising for reducing cognitive load of the engineering team is the biggest accelerator I've seen in all the companies I've worked with. It's as true in code as it is in architecture, people focused solely on architecture miss that.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 months

Finally released my OpenTelemetry Collector plugin/component for Aspire on Nuget. With this, you'll be able to have a collector and play with configs to see how they affect the telemetry produced by looking at the dashboard. It will automatically wire up

PracticalOtel.OtelCollector.Aspire 0.9.6-rc

An Aspire Component for adding an OpenTelemetry Collector

www.nuget.org

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

6 months

Overages on SaaS products shouldn't end your business. Incorrectly configuring your logging, or adding a high-cardinality label to a metric, has almost ended some companies. I believe you shouldn't fear your telemetry solution, which is why we don't charge for overages/spikes

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

The getting started docs for #OpenTelemetry and #dotnet have had a major update to make it a lot easier to follow and be inline with good practices. Do let me know if there's something missing here or something you'd like to see!

Getting Started

Get telemetry for your app in less than 5 minutes!

opentelemetry.io

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 years

What's that??? oh it's just @JetBrainsRider running inside WSL2 natively, no biggie. This is seriously cool... the power of WSL2, and the power of Rider/Resharper. No remoting, just running it inside WSL2.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

Me and @ICooper are planning a joint talk about Messaging, Events and Observability, what would you like to see? The general idea is the "how" but also the "why is it useful" and some of the decisions you'll have with different approaches like links vs parents and clean code

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

So @davidfowl I take it all back... logging is useful...

I finally found a use for Logging in .NET!

Log are finally useful… for debugging tracing errors By now, you’re probably aware of my feelings towards logs, or more specifically logs created by your application. That said, I’ve finally found …

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

NDC London is in January, CFP is open, and here's an offer for all of you aspiring speakers... I'll pre-review any abstracts, just DM me. We get a tonne of submissions, my job is to fill the pipeline with awesome people. #cfp #speaking

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 years

@mipsytipsy People praise the full service solutions CD solutions with auto updating ASG from a UI... But if they new how many big businesses they use everyday are held together by "shitty bash scripts", they'd fall off their Aeron chairs.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 years

A bit late (for obvious reasons), but I've been a bit absent due to this... Unicorn Bubblegum Thwaites (kids chose the name... We'll probably refer to him as Samuel), the first 9 month project I've delivered early (by 2 weeks)...

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

9 years

Anyone know of some good frontend tools/UI frameworks for developing single page dashboards?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

By popular* demand, here is the picture that's the basis for my #askMissO11y header image (). *my new 250 "high quality" followers that @hannes_lowette got me definitely wanted this.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Note to conference organisers... the speaking community is not as big as you think, and well, we speak to each other.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

The single best piece of advice I can give when building #observability in your code with #OpenTelemetry is to use constants in the code for attributes What you're doing is creating an index for you app. You're ensuring consistency so that you can query effectively #dotnet

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

ProTip: If you're going to send someone production credentials in clear text, on Teams... First... maybe don't? Second... Don't do it in a group chat Third... Maybe not in a group chat with the Head of Security in it?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

Amazing seeing people discover custom-built fakes and stubs and being amazed at how much simpler their code and tests are. It goes to show that Moqing has been cargo culted and essentially misunderstood as to why it's useful. Mocking is useful, but it has a niche usecase.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

This is my issue with the "no Friday deploys" crowd. It's perpetuates the idea that it's somehow acceptable to deploy that risky code on some other day. That it's fine to ruin someone's evening, but my god, don't ruin the weekend that would be unacceptable.

Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

@CTerevinto @toddhgardner If you're worried about your employees weekends... what about their evenings? Do those matter less? Are you fine that work time is dedicated to chasing deployment errors? If you're worried that the deployment will ruin someone's weekend, don't deploy that code on Monday either!

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

Every time I hear about a new tool that allows people to automatically get " #observability " from their application without changing any code, I cry a little inside. No tool knows your application better than you, they're all a compromise if you're not adding your own context.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

9 months

It's up on nuget now, and works great. There's still some tweaking to happen though. Right now, it's recording the spans and logs from the Dashboard application itself, which isn't ideal and creates a bit of a loop, but feel free to try it out!

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

The @honeycombio Booth Squad getting setup ready for #KubeConEU tomorrow. Come talk to us about #observability and how we can help

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

I got some inspiration last night for this.. What if all your xunit tests, and test cases, were also traces? See the trace for the code you're calling, if it's WebAppFactory, see the full web call in a trace. #dotnet #opentelemetry

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

6 months

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the technology world that kubernetes was the right abstraction.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Someone @dotnetdaysro asked if adding Activity and @opentelemetry in #dotnet had a performance hit, so I've been putting together a blog on it, and proving my assumption that it's minimal... about 25ns apparently. More analysis needed, but it's looking correct right now

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Martin Thwaites

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1 month

To those suggesting that if you're on Linux, you're immune to what happened with the outage yesterday... A similar issue happened with the same company on Debian machines in April with a Linux kernel update. The only difference? Linux admins/users are a different breed.

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Martin Thwaites

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1 year

Did you know that #OpenTelemetry has stability for the tracing signal across all languages (except Rust and PHP which are nearly there)? In addition, #dotnet and #java have stability for #Tracing , #Metrics and #Logging If you've not adopted it yet, why? Vendor support?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

OH in the #kcdc2023 speaker room: ChatGPT is the ultimate IT consultancy... it says plausible things that are wrong with so much confidence that it's believable.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

And that's forgetting about the fact that Rider exists, and you can run without it (omnisharp is still as good). I can understand not wanting to work with MS tech due to the shady OSS practices, and other stuff, but stop talking about IDEs being the blocker.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

1 year

@jeremydmiller @dustinmoris IRepositoryFactory getting you down? I got you covered... IRepositoryFactoryHelpers

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

@TedsTechTed At the early stage startup (which is what this talking about) a <1% opex increase for software licencing should not influence a decision. If it does, I'd be questioning the viability of the startup.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

7 years

@shanselman @AmpliFiHome There are few things more satisfying than good network wiring... my setup is currently similar to this:

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 years

@shanselman My wife has corrected me... Apparently it was WhatsApp...

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

9 months

So I'm a huge fan of Aspire already, but the dashboard is the true triumph. The orchestration side promotes bad habits of building tightly coupled distributed monoliths in my opinion. The idea that you can't debug a single app, you need the full system scope. 1/6

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Martin Thwaites

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2 years

@mipsytipsy Anyone who applied for a role with me and said they want to be an "Architect" always got an grilling. It's not a role, it's a responsibility, one that everyone in the team should take on at different times, for different things.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 years

The acceptances are going out for #ndclondon 2020, and unfortunately, so are the rejections. If you weren't chosen, you should know that 9 of us went through over 1000 submissions to fill just 90 slots. 1/3

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

It's really interesting watching the #dotnet community discover observability in real-time. Watching them start to realise the value of "good" telemetry, telemetry that has their specific context. Starting to see what's beyond the old school APM agents and monitoring platforms

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

8 months

Building a secure #opentelemetry collector just got easier! Now, all you need to do is provide a standard collector config and you can have a custom, secure build. Introducing the OCB-config-builder and it's container image! This is how simple it is to create a new image

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

5 months

This is a cool trick with #dotnet for simplifying APIs. Add an Extension method to the Add() of your dictionary type and you can add objects easier and contain the logic. This pulls a property, but your object could define it's key on a method just as easily.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Blogged: Evil Monkeypatching in C# with Rosyln Source Generators According to @markrendle this is evil, and I shouldn't be doing it, and neither should you. #dotnet #roslyn #evil

Evil Monkeypatching in C# with Rosyln Source Generators

I came across this as I was trying to find a way to add a shim onto a sealed class from the Microsoft BCL. The goal was to provide a package that allowed people using that class to get a wrapper ve…

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Martin Thwaites

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3 years

@krisnova Everyone should be on-call, if you're not, you're actively saying that your shit is for someone else's to deal with. Instead of "I'm not doing on call because <insert lame excuse>" try saying "I'm too important to do on call, let someone else deal with my bugs", see how it flies

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Martin Thwaites

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4 years

Would anyone be interested in attending a panel/conversation about observability and OpenTelemetry? I'm thinking a Zoom session for people to asking questions, and joining in a moderated conversation about it?

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Martin Thwaites

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4 months

TIL that creates spans/activities for the inbound request, even if you don't listen to the source/tracer. This is because they have logic that bypasses the standards (their standards) if you have logging enabled. To disable it:

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Martin Thwaites

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2 years

Pretty decent crowd for my first demo of the day. We talked about @opentelemetry , #SLOs , #Tracing . High Dimensionality production debugging was probably the game changer that blow people's minds though. #ITestInProd #ndclondon

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@shanselman And debian based ones in April due to not supporting the new kernel properly or protecting against it.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Full room for my talk on Operable Software last week!

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

@Serianox_ @shanselman It wasn't an opinion though, you stated incorrect facts. Things that are misleading.

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@MartinDotNet

1 month

My daughter is donating her hair to The Little Princess Trust. They create wigs for children who have lost theirs through cancer treatment. She's been growing it for 2 years so "it will make even better wigs!" She's also fundraising for them too!

Annabel's fundraiser for Little Princess Trust

Help Amy Thwaites raise money to support Little Princess Trust

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 months

This is a super cool usecase of using #OpenTelemetry to monitor usage of endpoints marked as Obsolete. I can envisage using this with SLOs to measure when certain tenants/users/clients are using endpoints and make sure they're migrating off them.

Massimiliano Donini

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2 months

During this weekend my blog got a facelift :) and I also published a new article about obsoleting and safely removing unused endpoints in #aspnet using #otel and visualizing the metrics via #Aspire . Check it out here

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Martin Thwaites

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7 months

Are any #dotnet devs still logging to stdout and files in production, intentionally? if so, why? there are much better ways to get that data to the destinations. Unless you're working in an offline environment, that feels pointless?

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1 year

Still stuck in the past? embrace traces and #OpenTelemetry , you'll never look back. Forget about the "3 pillars", true #observability can be achieved with only 1 signal, traces.

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Martin Thwaites

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1 year

The only question you need to ask someone who's only stayed at jobs less than 2 years is what did they actually have to support. If all they've done is build and build, they've never felt the real pain of making the wrong decision, that makes seniors and principals.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

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Part 2 of my #OpenTelemetry Best Practices coffee series is out This one covers Auto vs. Coded instrumentation, when each is useful and also the value you get from each As always, let me know what else you want covered in the series Next up, data prep!

OpenTelemetry Best Practices #2: Agents, Sidecars, Collectors, Coded Instrumentation

In part 2 of this OpenTelemetry Best Practices series, Martin Thwaites goes over agents, the Collector, coded instrumentation, & more.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Just installed @Tailscale as a VPN client with a subnet router for my local network, and that was RIDICULOUSLY easy. Like... when did VPNs become easier than printers?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

@JamesNK Are you saying there's not a more readable way to write this that results in the same compiled code, or equivalent code with the same performance profile?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

3 months

Oh bless my little heart... I tried with the formatting... And oh the optimism of needing an Int64. This was an app used by 10 people in an office.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

4 months

Recognising your own privilege when advising people who see you as successful is consistently one of the hardest things. It's not malicious, it's just hard to constantly think about the lucky breaks, the right place right time, and also the small things that enabled you.

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Is OpenTelemetry something you adopt or something you implement?

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Martin Thwaites

@MartinDotNet

2 years

Say hello to "And the Linebreakers" at #NDCLondon

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