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While Gathering Information About Software", "url": "https://giedrius.blog/2017/08/27/on-trustworthiness-of-sources-while-gathering-information-about-software/", "published_at": "2017-08-27T16:34:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877c-fc54-73f0-b5ca-f60ef4c80dd4", "title": "Experience with Audio Books: 24 hour edition", "url": "https://giedrius.blog/2017/08/19/experience-with-audio-books-24-hour-edition/", "published_at": "2017-08-19T13:24:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877c-fc54-73f0-b5ca-f60ef59135f1", "title": "Why You Should Read Programming Books", "url": "https://giedrius.blog/2017/08/16/why-you-should-read-programming-books/", "published_at": "2017-08-16T05:31:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877c-fc54-73f0-b5ca-f60ef6587f55", "title": "About Me", "url": "https://giedrius.blog/about-me/", "published_at": "2017-08-13T19:41:34+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Zig crash - interfacesoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Hello Hugo!original ↗
1 Aug 2026

2025

OpenTelemetry-go makes it hard to migrate to exponential histogramsoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2025
Jsonnet is not so badoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2025
Mirages of data ownership in Gooriginal ↗
5 Mar 2025

2024

My gRPC Annoyancesoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2024
How I Started Programmingoriginal ↗
31 May 2024
Dynamic hashrings with WAL in Thanos are badoriginal ↗
24 May 2024
Vertical compaction + hashmod foot gun in Thanos Compactororiginal ↗
7 May 2024
Perils of /metrics data assertionsoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
Starting up GitHub sponsors and some recent postings workoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2024

2023

Reproducing flaky Go tests using Linux cgroups and systemdoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
Cheat Sheet Of How To Get Accepted Into LFXoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2023
Why Thanos Receive Will Almost Always Be Faster Than Thanos Sidecaroriginal ↗
13 Mar 2023
Taxonomy of PromQL enginesoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023

2022

Distributed Systems Magic: K-way Merge in Thanosoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2022
"Observability Engineering" Book Revieworiginal ↗
23 May 2022
Distributed Systems Magic: Groupcache in Thanosoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2022
Things Learned From Trying to Migrate To Protobuf V2 API from gogoprotobuf (So Far)original ↗
4 Feb 2022
Things Learned From Speaking at a Physical Conference The First Timeoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022

2021

Custom Metric Retention Periods on Thanosoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2021
What Is The Optimal Split Interval For query-frontend?original ↗
11 Oct 2021
Surprising Behavior With inotify And ioutiloriginal ↗
6 Mar 2021
Running systemd Units Only If Certain CPU Features Are Availableoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2021
Surprising Optimization When Appending Elements to an Array in ZSHoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021
How to Visualize Prometheus TSDB With Thanosoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2021

2020

Regular Meetings vs. Online Meetingsoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2020
Equivocal Puppet Class Parametersoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2020
Yet Another Failed Website (Startup?) Idea: Discount Search Engineoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2020
Dangers of IsEmpty() With Enums and FluentValidationoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2020
Crash-Only Software In Practice With Filebeat On Kubernetesoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2020
Load Testing Thanos Query (StoreAPI)original ↗
10 May 2020
How to solve puppetdb and SIGKILL problemsoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2020

2019

Is it a good idea to use Prometheus for storing ASCII paintings?original ↗
21 Sept 2019
ABCs of Logstash capacity planningoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2019
What I would love to see in the Puppet configuration management softwareoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2019
Designing API Like It Is An Everyday Thingoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2019
Property-based testing in Golangoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2019
What Is New In Thanos 0.5.0original ↗
3 Jun 2019
Push Vs. Pull In Monitoring Systemsoriginal ↗
11 May 2019
Everything You Need To Know About The Index Cache Size in Thanosoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2019
Lessons Learned From Trying To Validate a Software Business Idea for the First Timeoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2019
Choosing Maximum Concurrent Queries in Prometheus Smartlyoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2019
Apply The Same Principle to Monitoring Alerts as to Software Bugsoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2019

2018

Introducing SAM: Similar Alerts Manager (My Side-Project)original ↗
29 Dec 2018
2018 in booksoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2018
Capacity planning of Prometheus 2.4.2 + Thanos Sidecar 0.1.0original ↗
16 Dec 2018
/etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts woes with the Alpine (and others) Docker image and Golangoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2018
Go's http.Transport and 408 response code - what's the relationship?original ↗
25 Oct 2018
Are Scrum, Agile, and other iterative programming methodologies useful for niche programming specialties such as SREs, DevOps engineers, and so on?original ↗
8 Oct 2018
Tutorial: Poor Man's Release/Shipping Process on GitLaboriginal ↗
1 Oct 2018
1 year anniversary of this blog - lessons, opinions, mistakesoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2018
Ancient specification "bug": you cannot use colons in your username with the HTTP basic authentication methodoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2018
Turbo-charging git-diff and making reviews easieroriginal ↗
23 Jul 2018
scanf(3) is a newbie trap, use fgets(3) with sscanf(3) insteadoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2018
No, programming languages do not have speedsoriginal ↗
18 May 2018
10 nuggets of knowledge that I picked up from "Code Complete"original ↗
27 Apr 2018
Terraform vSphere provider 1.x now supports deploying OVA files, makes using ovftool on ESXi hosts obsoleteoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2018
The State of Internet censorship in Lithuania (Beginning of 2018 Edition)original ↗
24 Mar 2018
Why os.move() Sometimes Does Not Work And Why shutil.move() Is The Savior?original ↗
28 Jan 2018
Tutorial: Automatic, Reproducible Preparation of Virtual Machine templates for your vSphere environment with HashiCorp's Packeroriginal ↗
14 Jan 2018
What is Actually True and False in Python?original ↗
4 Jan 2018

2017

How to Not Get Scammed by Taxi Drivers in the Israel's Ben-Gurion Airportoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2017
Confusion With File Redirection And sudooriginal ↗
31 Oct 2017
Review of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" for programmersoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2017
Making Unwinding Functions in C Simple: Do Not be Afraid of Using Gotosoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2017
Do not forget to open 443 port while using ovftool on ESXi hosts and deploying to a vCenteroriginal ↗
12 Oct 2017
Ar KAM gali manipuliuoti sugeneruotus skaičius taip, kad į šauktinius būtų pakviesti tik atitinkami asmenys?original ↗
30 Sept 2017
Short tale about proxies and /etc/hosts on GNU/Linuxoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2017
On Trustworthiness of Sources While Gathering Information About Softwareoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2017
Experience with Audio Books: 24 hour editionoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2017
Why You Should Read Programming Booksoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2017
About Meoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2017