Publications
Articles, talks, and webinars on observability, OpenTelemetry, and AIOps.
Notes
- 2026-01 Cobblehurst
On living in a 190-year-old Quaker meeting house, Tiffany glass, Scottish ironwork, and an AI owl in the window overlooking a graveyard.
- 2026-01 Adventures in Veo 3.1: Teaching AI to Remember What Characters Look Like
How do you make an AI video generator remember what a cartoon elk looks like across multiple scenes? Reference images, creative workarounds, and one expensive test run.
- 2025-12 Building Vibecaster: AI Social Media Automation in Public
I built an AI that posts to Twitter and LinkedIn for me. Here's the architecture, the interesting bits, and what I learned.
- 2025-12 Building AI-Native Session Replay with OpenTelemetry
I built the semantic instrumentation layer. Here's how logs + traces + frustration detection work together.
- 2025-12 Session Replay is a Band-Aid (And AI Can Do Better)
Session replay tools record everything but understand nothing. Here's an AI-native alternative using semantic events.
- 2025-12 LLMs Keep Hallucinating My URLs (So I Built a Fix)
Claude generated plausible-looking URLs that didn't exist. Here's the architectural problem and a hook-based solution.
- 2025-12 Why I Build Things
On strange careers, Quaker meeting houses, and the feeling of making something work.
Articles
- 2025-04 The hidden costs of tool sprawl: An SRE's guide to observability consolidation
Elastic Blog
- 2025-01 Realizing the business value of OpenTelemetry-native observability
Elastic Blog
- 2024-12 The evolving role of SREs: Balancing reliability, cost, and innovation
Elastic Blog
- 2024-11 Leveling up your observability practice — Part 2
Elastic Blog
- 2024-11 Leveling up your observability practice — Part 1
Elastic Blog
- 2023-09 The power of effective log management in software development and operations
Elastic Blog
- 2022-11 A look under the hood at eBPF: A new way to monitor and secure your platforms
Elastic Blog
More on Elastic Blog and Observability Labs
Talks & Webinars
- 2025-04 Observability in the Open: OTel for Public Sector
Elastic Webinar
- 2024 Transform Your Systems with No-Compromise Observability
Elastic + Foundry Research Webinar
- 2024-09 The Next Generation of Observability: Leveraging LLMs and Generative AI
Elastic + Microsoft Webinar
- 2024 Why SREs Need AI and ML for Observability and IT Resilience
Elastic + AWS Webinar
- 2024-01 Why You Need AIOps as Part of Your Observability Strategy
Elastic Webinar
- 2023-12 Using AIOps, GAI, and Observability for Higher Performing Applications
Elastic Webinar
- 2023 Transcending Observability: A Dive into the Future of Logging with OpenTelemetry
DevOpsDays Buffalo