https://saahityaedams.github.io/tags/iceberg/ Recent content in Iceberg on saahityaedams Hugo en-us Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://saahityaedams.github.io/posts/drafts/metrics/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://saahityaedams.github.io/posts/drafts/metrics/ <p>When working at a large tech company, one thing I really enjoyed and found useful was that if you had a question about some aspect of the system (like say the cache ratio), all you had to do to get an answer was emit a metric in the code with a library, deploy and see the live data flow into some internal embeddable version of cloudwatch. The developer experience was particularly good since from my POV all I had to do was use the library in my service and emit a metric and everything else worked out of the box. My sense is that this was an internal implementation of canonical log lines<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> since I recollect seeing these metrics in the boxes where the logs were collected as well.</p>