Bryan Boreham

I decided months ago to avoid that country if at all possible.
See you in Amsterdam, hopefully.

Distraction Is All You Get

That’s excellent; I’ve looked for a way to do that before.

📣 At #ObservabilityCON 2025, we announced updates that make observability smarter, scalable, and easier for every team — including Grafana Assistant GA, new additions to the Adaptive Telemetry, & more.

Read more:
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/08/observabilitycon-2025-announcements/

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

Have your say! Let us know whether you would like more net recommender surveys.

Taylor Swift (Grafana’s Version): How to track and visualize data related to pop’s biggest superstar | Grafana Labs In celebration of The Life of a Showgirl, a team of Grafanistas used Grafana Assistant to build a dazzling dashboard that lets you visualize the eras and career milestones of the one and only Taylor S...

Call it “The Dashboard of a Showgirl” 🎶

4 Swifties with varying levels of engineering expertise used Grafana Assistant to build a #TaylorSwift dashboard that will never go out of style.

✨ Enchanted ✨ to share the dashboard and the story behind it.

Taylor's in her Showgirl era — and this week, so is Grafana ✨

Using Grafana Assistant, we built a Taylor Swift dashboard — and it tells Taylor's musical story all too well.

Full dashboard reveal coming this Friday!

Not much need; we have enough control over clients to do all the mesh features in code.

River view, late evening. Trees and orange sky.

Teddington Lock

Announcing H1 2026 KCDs We’re excited to announce the first wave of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and…

KCDs, KCDs everywhere!

www.cncf.io/blog/2025/09...

Go's execution tracer is a woefully underutilized tool. It contains tons of information about what is happening at any given moment that you won't get with a profile.

In addition to showing flight recording capabilities, this post provides a nice example of how to use tracing to diagnose a problem.

Who's going to #SRECon? 🇮🇪

We're excited to be a sponsor! Come to booth 8 with your #Grafana Stack questions and pick up some swag! Don't miss Nikola's talk on auto-instrumentation for GPU performance using #eBPF.

See you there!

Jimmy Kimmel calls out 'anti-American' threats to free speech in tearful TV return The comedian returned from a brief suspension after comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

De Niro quipped: "Speech, it ain't free no more."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

YouTube video by GopherCon Europe Faster Go Maps With Swiss Tables - Michael Pratt | GopherCon EU 2025

I enjoyed your talk too - we managed to mostly talk about different aspects of the implementation.

youtu.be/aqtIM5AK9t4

Thanks! I also tried to measure the GOAMD64=v1/v2/v3 difference and it was in the noise. Maybe the benchmarks are too micro.

I’d better start writing my talk!

YouTube video by GopherCon UK Swiss Maps in Go - Bryan Boreham

Video is up now - my take on how map is implemented in Go, and what changed from Go 1.23 to 1.24 and 1.25.

youtu.be/M05t7Q6LbFs

Worth a listen - Go security from the horse’s mouth.

If one requests more cpu than the other, and the machine is maxed out, then they will share the total in that proportion.

Meet Mimir Query Engine: faster queries, leaner memory use, and a cornerstone of Grafana Mimir 3.0.

👉 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/17/faster-more-memory-efficient-performance-in-grafana-mimir-a-closer-look-at-mimir-query-engine/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

YouTube video by GopherCon UK Swiss Maps in Go - Bryan Boreham

My talk from #gopherconuk is up on YouTube!
My take on how map is implemented in Go, and what changed from Go 1.23 to 1.24 and 1.25.

youtu.be/M05t7Q6LbFs

* Talk contains no AI, but does contain pictures of cats.

Thousands gather for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally, and counter protest More than 100,000 people join a rally organised by the far-right activist in London, with a counter-protest by Stand Up To Racism also taking place.

I accidentally found myself on the edge of this. Scary.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YouTube video by The Royal Institution Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton

The first half is a good explanation of how neural networks grew into LLMs; in the second half his conclusions seem a stretch to me.
Can’t fault his credentials though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikdz...

That’s nuts.

You want this, even if you don’t understand it. Part of what I was talking about at KubeCon Tokyo.

Ncuti Gatwa. Christopher Marlowe.
Wow.

www.rsc.org.uk/born-with-te...

Resistance is useless.

U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH U+0239 LATIN SMALL LETTER QP DIGRAPH These are actually ligatures, rather than digraphs U+025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E This is actually a Latin epsilon and should have been so called. U+025E LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E Actually a closed reversed epsilon (reversed form of U+025B). U+0285 LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH This is actually a reversed fishhook r with retroflex hook.

Conversational gambits for weeks!

www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/

I cannot read or write jsonnet.
Which is sad because all the config at work is done in jsonnet.