jbiggley

> If the goal of a company is first and foremost to make money, then sales is the only organization within the company that can be measured exactly according to the primary goal of the company rather than a proxy.

This feels culturally accurate but also reductive. The best sales teams cannot sustainably sell a product that fails to have product-market fit. Likewise, the best product requiring a sales-led GTM will fail if sales teams are not able to understand and articulate the value.

A compensation imbalance between customer-facing and non-facing roles builds an imbalance of power dynamics within a company that will ultimately destabilize the culture and success of a company.

I don’t have a perfect answer, only observations.

Kudos for being self-aware and acknowledging that solving the problem which you saw doesn't always translate into solving the problem that potential customers want to pay you to solve.

One of my favorite talks [0] speaks to the problem with thinking that telemetry is valuable just because it is [logs|metrics|traces].

Alerts/notifications etc. are an attempt to distill something useful from something that is abundant. From Cribl's `About Us` page [1] -- \ ˈkribəl \ - “An instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom generally used for gold panning in order to strain valuable material from discardable matter.”

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTf5pli3qRU

[1] https://cribl.io/about-us/

I do research as a hobby. It resulted in a published data set and news article that was picked up by global media outlets. The article led to a documentary.

And, I just keep doing the research because I love the research part of it. I find it relaxing and it allows me to stretch my tech skills at the same time.

This is the right answer. Standards and recommendations are good. Let vendors and individual companies implement them, as needed.

+1 for Obsidian or other platforms that support Markdown format natively. Being platform locked is terrible for knowledge management and Markdown has made me less concerned with future knowledge access in a post-Obsidian world. (Yes, I said it! There will be a post-Obsidian world.)

I agree. The team at Isovalent is extraordinary and should continue to be strong champions of BPF for network and security use cases. With Cisco footing the bill, I think we will see even more expansion into XDP traffic processing that is native to hardware vs. the current overlay model.

First Splunk, now Isovalent. Cisco has been busy this year!

This reminds me of my favourite quote about standards.

>The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

And, keeping with the theme, this quote may be from Grace Hopper, Andrew Tanenbaum, Patricia Seybold or Ken Olsen.

That was the line we were sold by cloud vendors. There is a reason that significant portions of both native cloud and migrated workloads are shifting back to self-hosted; the cost savings never materialized.

My google-fu failed to find any articles for or against my statement that weren’t paid advertising or lightweight tech summaries. StackOverflow will have to do. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/20/are-companies-shifting...