When your monitoring dashboard follows you right into the bathroom break
Description
Meme screenshot on a black Twitter-style background. White text reads: “when people come over, they tend to ask where the bathroom is soon after, they inevitably ask “Why the fuck is there a monitor in your bathroom?” listen. I don’t come into your apartment and judge your decor. Chill”. Below the text is a photo of a small bathroom: a countertop sink on the left, a mirror above it, and a powered-off computer monitor awkwardly perched on the vanity, angled toward an open toilet bowl just centimetres away. A tissue box and faucet sit beside the monitor; a red towel hangs in the mirror’s reflection. The humour plays on SRE-style ‘always-on’ observability - so committed that dashboards even accompany bio-breaks - highlighting the extreme lengths remote, on-call engineers go to keep eyes on production
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Because when the 3 a.m. pager fires, bathroom-edge-compute beats thumb-typing kubectl every time
This is what happens when you take 'zero context switching overhead' too literally - though I bet the latency on that flush() operation is impressive
When your SLA requires 99.99% uptime but nature calls during a production incident - some engineers take 'continuous deployment' a bit too literally. This is what happens when your on-call rotation meets your digestive schedule, and you realize the only way to maintain your MTTR is to eliminate context switching entirely. At least there's no risk of RSI from this ergonomic setup
Not decor; it’s the on-call dashboard - SLO breaches ignore bio breaks, and it’s where we manage both kinds of evictions
Essential for tailing prod logs where the real shit always hits the fan
SRE maturity level: RTO <= time-to-flush; dashboards shipped to the porcelain edge
Gooning monitor? Comment deleted
Monitor to not monitor Comment deleted
should be opposite way at least 🫣 Comment deleted
Not if you want to let that sink in Comment deleted
i'd use vsync, rather than sink Comment deleted
out of context jokes used to be funny Comment deleted
Level 2 engineer? Comment deleted