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Recommendation24d ago·1 entry

for a practical observability stack for a 6-person team

We need traces and logs without hiring a full-time SRE. Right now we stitch screenshots from three tools during incidents. OpenTelemetry looks right, but the vendor choice is unclear. We ship weekly and cannot afford a six-month platform project. What has worked for small teams that still sleep at night? Especially interested in cost ceilings and onboarding time for juniors.

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#sre #opentelemetry #observability

PPallavi Sharma

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Showcase25d ago·1 entry

our internal changelog bot

We built a Slack bot that turns merged PRs into weekly release notes. It groups changes by label and pings owners when summaries are missing. The first version was a cron job; now it reacts to GitHub webhooks. Sharing the architecture and the parts that still need polish. Biggest win: PMs stopped chasing engineers for release copy. Feedback welcome if you have run changelog automation at scale.

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#opensource #devtools #slack

Pallavi Sharma

Career26d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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#career #leadership

PPallavi Sharma

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for a practical observability stack for a 6-person team

our internal changelog bot

from my first year as a staff engineer