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In my last post I talked about why modern observability has become so expensive. At the end of the post I posit a question: What if by default we never send any telemetry at all? In this post I’m goin

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The left-wing U.S. newsroom, a hub for pro-Palestinian coverage, is scrambling for funding.

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