Observability

  • 9th July 2026

When Agents Go to Production: What Actually Breaks

When agents go to production, they break the four assumptions today’s infrastructure was built on: deterministic, human-driven, request-response, stateless. A first-principles walk through what actually breaks.

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  • 26th June 2026

I Burned 23 Billion Tokens to "Rewrite" Langfuse

A migration retro: forking Langfuse to swap its analytics store from ClickHouse to GreptimeDB, run mostly by two AI agents. Most of the work was paying down the debt of one decision — make a single database both the source of truth and the analytics layer.

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  • 16th June 2026

The Three Pillars of Observability: The Unification That Never Quite Arrived (Part 2 of 2)

Part 1 was about how the three pillars split apart. This part is about how many smart people, starting in 2018, tried to put them back together — what they actually built, and why none of it quite reached the finish line.

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  • 10th June 2026

The Three Pillars of Observability: A History No One Planned (Part 1 of 2)

Today we treat metrics, logging, and tracing as the natural structure of observability. But it wasn’t designed; it grew. Part 1, on how it split apart (2010–2017).

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  • 31st May 2026

When Systems Turn Uncertain: How Datadog Sees Observability in the AI Era

Datadog’s Investor Day deck quietly redefines observability: the object of observation turns probabilistic, AI agents become operators, and the reader of the data shifts from human to model.

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  • 23rd May 2026

TMA1 v2: Making the Agent Loop actually loop

TMA1 v2 adds an MCP server, enhanced hooks that auto-inject build/session/anomaly context, and cross-agent context sharing between Claude Code and Codex.

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  • 18th March 2026

Observing my coding agents without leaving localhost

TMA1: a local observability tool for AI coding agents with full session trace, tool decision breakdown, latency tracking, and SQL-queryable storage.

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