Archive - A Small, Good Thing

Thoughts on Oddly Specific Versioning in Observability

Or, what matters most in 2025

Dec 30, 2024 •

June 2023

Thoughts on Infinite Games

Then I would be my own locomotive, trailing behind me as I returned to work little puffs of smoke, indicators of progress, signs of industry and…

Jun 8, 2023 •

October 2022

Notes on Vendor Neutral Observability Instrumentation

Oct 19, 2022 •

July 2022

Thoughts on 529 Plans

It's more of a Shelbyville idea

Jul 22, 2022 •

April 2022

Notes on an Observability Team

or, What Would You Say...You Do Here?

Apr 20, 2022 •

February 2022

Toward OpenTelemetry Compatible Synthetic Tests

or, what an Open Source E2E synthetic browser test suite might look like

Feb 21, 2022 •

March 2021

Thoughts on OpenTelemetry in 2021

or, Why Generals Always Fight the Last War

Mar 1, 2021 •

January 2021

Notes on Software, Finance, and Cats

Welcome to A Small, Good Thing by me, Eric Mustin.

Jan 10, 2021 •

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