#Observability Platform

[neilsblog]

Unveiling Network Observability: The Key to Optimal IT Infrastructure Performance

In today’s digitally driven world, the IT network is the backbone of any organization, supporting critical applications, facilitating communication, and enabling efficient operations. As network topologies become increasingly complex and dynamic, maintaining the reliability and performance of this essential infrastructure presents significant challenges. Traditional monitoring tools, which rely…

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

[vanillatwistgirl]

Random Observations pt-1

🌙 Moon & Emotional Patterns: People with Moon in the 12th house often have vivid dreams, psychic intuition, or a deep connection to the unseen realm. Their emotions can feel like a mystery even to themselves.

A Moon-Mars aspect (especially conjunction or square) can make someone emotionally reactive but also incredibly passionate about their beliefs.

Moon in fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sag) processes emotions through action, while water sign Moons (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) need emotional depth and security.

🪐 Saturn & Life Lessons:

Saturn in the 7th house brings serious relationships but often delays marriage or attracts karmic partnerships.

Saturn transits over personal planets can feel like a reality check—forcing growth through hardship.

Saturn Return (around 28-30 years old) is when life demands maturity; people often switch careers, end toxic relationships, or take on major responsibilities.

🌞 Sun & Core Identity :

Sun in the 8th house people have an aura of mystery, deep transformation, and an ability to reinvent themselves multiple times in life.

A Leo Sun with a Capricorn Moon is an interesting mix—outwardly charismatic but emotionally reserved.

Sun-Neptune aspects can make someone deeply creative but also prone to self-doubt and illusions about their identity

Includes both Vedic and tropical :

Venus in the 12th house: Love can feel like a secret, karmic, or involve hidden themes (long-distance, unspoken love, etc.).

Mercury Retrograde in someone's birth chart can make them overthink but also see details others miss.

Jupiter in the 10th house is often a sign of career success and public recognition (as long as they take action).

Mrigashira Nakshatra (Mars-ruled) is curious, restless, and deeply drawn to discovering hidden knowledge—kind of like a cosmic detective.

[dramaaddict]

The Blossoming Love

This is a rant post coz the promotions for The Blossoming Love SUCKS SO BAD. Starting with that title which is so generic and basic with both most overused words in cdrama titles 'Blossom' and 'Love'. The direct translation for Chinese title is "Thousands of peach blossoms bloom forever" which in my opinion is still not very good but it's longer and most importantly DISTINCT.

And then the posters. I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact same type of posters for other dramas. Nothing about these posters are appealing to me. I even thought the first one was a poster from another drama of his coz look.

The latest released poster and the photo shoot they did are so much better. I think it has something to do with the colors but I'm not an expert so I can't say for sure.

If they just want to show the vibe of the earlier parts, a poster like this

or if they can't add in a kiss in the poster coz you never know with Chinese censors something like this would work too instead of those.

AND THEN THE TRAILER. I've seen people watch it and saying it's just another "Journey of the Flower" type drama (understandably) but it makes me wanna scream IT'S NOT DON'T COMPARE MY XXC TO THAT WIMP. But the trailer sucks so bad if I just saw this first I wouldn't be interested too. Like who made this atrocity, I just wanna have a talk.

Another problem is people watching just the first few episodes and judging the whole drama based on them. It's just sad. TBF, If I haven't already seen the posts from @dangermousie and @fake-married-my-dead-fiance (Thank you guys so much) I too would have thought it's another generic Xianxia with so call "Righteous" ML (who is actually just a hypocrite and a coward who judge other based on their identities instead of their actions or don't dare go against traditions/others and never even question "the righteous way" when he clearly knows it's anything but that.) And this type of MLs disgust me the most even more than someone like Li Cheng Yin. (OP gods who aren't allowed to feel are another type although they're not bad just frustrating which Shen Li made it work last year.) That's why the "Good Guy" MLs have always repelled me in Xianxia but this drama makes it work. This is the first time I find the Righteousness of the ML extremely attractive.

Tell me how to not fall for this.

This drama don't have big names with large fandoms backing them while airing at the same time as THREE other dramas with traffic stars in them. Youku don't do anything to promote it properly either.

I want to see more posts about this drama, people discussing it, posting about specific scenes or drama watching threads but it's really difficult to find since so few are watching this. I won't blame it if you truly don't enjoy it since everyone don't have the same taste but please at least give it a chance. You can even watch it by ffing. If you still aren't sure and don't mind the spoilers check out @dangermousie and @fake-married-my-dead-fiance posts about this.

P.S- This is the exact scene that convinced me that I'm 100% going to love this drama and it's in ep 1 btw.

Disclaimer: I'm not a good writer and this post is not very organized coz it was a sudden impulse. I just wanted to write out my frustrations after seeing a video about it.

Update: This trailer also sucks.

[beaft]

after some experimentation, i've found that "clean-shaven and hair hidden under a beanie" gets me gendered as male way more reliably than "hair loose, full moustache". no idea why long hair provokes such a strong "that's a girl" reaction, but there we go.

[literaphobe]

i was thinking about not saying anything because really i just want peace amongst the lands but as a person who likes torturing herself on bad social media sites i wanna say the situation with the 'movie is better vs show is better' thing isn't as simple as two camps sprouting simultaneously.

if anything, after the movie was premiered in theatres and leaked there was this camp who saw it that very loudly and harshly spread this whole hate campaign on the show, straight up worshipped the movie like it was the best thing since sliced bread, just started hating on the show like they were antis. in all honesty some people talked like they were being PAID. because 'movie is way better than the shitty show!!' was all i could see on twitter for over a month and i didn't watch it so i was like um maybe it really is groundbreaking?

but then the movie officially released and all of a sudden i saw a lot more 'tbh i didn't think it was that great' takes pop up in replies and comments and posts. it was evening out and then i started to see 'just let people enjoy the movie!! stop bullying us for preferring it over the show!' tweets and 'theres two cakes!! can't we just eat!!' type posts. and i genuinely think most people (on tumblr) want to keep the peace and aren't trying to cause harm. but it puts a slightly bitter taste in my mouth because people were straight up harassing thomas astruc over how the movie did everything so good and his show version was so awful lousy and cringefail. and regardless of how he responded or what your opinion is of him ifl people went too far in their 'support' of the movie at the expense of the show. and having this context and knowing how awful people have been could be sort of... eye-opening? i guess?

because its one thing for two camps to suddenly start fighting. its another when one side was poking the bear for no reason whatsoever for AGES only to start victimizing themselves when the opposite happened (and never usually to the same extent)

[lazzarella]

I feel like I have a lot of interesting things to say and share but when I try it either comes out garbled nonsense or just really. fucking. dull. Or it seems SO obvious to me that I just don't think to share it because surely everyone has noticed this or knows about this and... Yeah. IDK where I'm going with this but why can't I be more interesting arghhhhhhhhhh

[kraniumet]

culture report; children, interacting with art that speaks to them because of its cuteness, that they honestly ideally should not be in contact with. they are aware there is something "bad" about it that makes most people uncomfortable, but they do not have the capacity to understand the severity of the transgressions present in the thing they're interacting with yet. so they try to synthesize and make up strict yet arcane rules about how you can still interact with it, to their best ability, in an attempt to take charge of the whole situation. with the side effect often being that the people who want to "distance" themselves are still interacting with it under the guise of "fixing it" or warning others about it. and the people who don't are straight up spreading misinformation out of discomfort.

[nightsandreala]

i know him and balan are like 10ft+ but like. Man

[thistransient]

板橋區

[ladynoirzeddison123]

Reading the discussions going around regarding the clues for 608 got me thinking…with all the Elarion symbolism and the Ring around Rosie song could it be maybe “Ashes of Elarion”?

[lith-myathar]

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[lo-batteryy]

Not leaving I love it here ❤️❤️❤️ BUT I did make a Bluesky if you’re over there I’d love to have some people to follow back

[cosmermaid]

I need to be more consistent with my travel magnet collection.

The tree one is from Pittsburgh.

[gascon-en-exil]

700ish moons in, I think I'm about as done with Super Mario Odyssey as I've ever likely to be. With many games there comes a point when going for 100% completion when the frustration begins to outweigh the fun, and for me Odyssey reached that point very early into the postgame if not sooner.

[bitchesgate3]

It's becoming clear to me that the critical blogs are not operating in practice how most people expect. Just the nature of how things end up being used.

People don't seem to use these blogs for anonymous confession, but moreso an anonymous space to freely disagree.

We need a "Rumble Zone" that is moderated to curb toxicity, but allow people to debate. Would eliminate the trolls and the people with weak arguments who get platformed.

In the meantime, I'd actually go as far to suggest the critical blogs disallow responses to submissions and treat it like a confessions blog.