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Claire Simmonds

Claire is an o11y, music, and general-purpose nerd from the Midwest.

The Shape of Data

Making full use of telemetry data is a critical but challenging part of the job. You’ve collected it, so now what? You need to derive value from that data in some way—a bunch of data points sitting around in a time series database isn’t very interesting on

Alert Fatigue: The (not so) Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The other day, my dog had a longer-than-usual stay at the groomer, much to his dismay. I had accidentally ignored the text message they sent me when he was ready to be picked up. But how did I make this (in his eyes) egregious mistake? Well, in recent weeks, my

The Three Pillars — Revisited

Is this once-foundational observability concept crumbling?

TikTok or Nah?

I'm a fan of the old television series The Twilight Zone, and one of its classic episodes in particular, an entry titled "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." In it, the civility of a small town in Anywhere, U.S.A. breaks down amidst the

Recap: Applying LinkedIn’s Developer Productivity Happiness (DPH) Framework

I recently attended a webinar featuring the architects of LinkedIn's internal developer experience framework, the Developer Productivity and Happiness (DPH) Framework. In the session, the DPH authors introduced the framework itself and shared insights and challenges they faced while rolling out the changes at LinkedIn. It was an

What is Observability?

Several of my past engineering roles have been focused on the field of “observability” and this is inevitably one of the first questions that comes up when I talk about my career. And not just with people like my friends and in-laws, but for people that I work with too.