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Archive for April 20th, 2023

2023: Data kampen – Elisabeth Ruiterkampen

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/20

Voor mijn geheugen, de paardrijkampen in 2023: [Wayback/Archive] Data kampen – Elisabeth Ruiterkampen

–jeroen

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The CPU load average metric often is not a good one to alert on

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/20

Boy I wish threads with more than one person could be saved by the ThreadReaderApp.

Anyway:

[WayBack] Thread by @mipsytipsy: oh boy.. i was just idly musing over how the single most ubiquitous/useless metric is “CPU load average”, lol i wonder if you could use CPU…

oh boy.. i was just idly musing over how the single most ubiquitous/useless metric is “CPU load average”, lol

i wonder if you could use CPU load alerts to score how modern and powerful a team’s toolchain is, like a Waffle House Index for tooling. 🤔

 

…oh oh! but i was gonna say, this thread between @drk and @shelbyspees is a killer nanotutorial in how to ask better questions about your code — where to start, how to drill down and dig in, how to instrument, and how to approach such an open-ended exploratory jaunt. 👏🐝❤️

it’s a really good illustration of this thing we end up saying all the time, which is “don’t fear the future, it is simpler and clearer and *easier* here! the way you are doing it NOW is the hard way!” 😖

time for cpu load average to go the way of the PC LOAD LETTER …

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