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Bartłomiej Płotka

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Bartłomiej Płotka

@bwplotka

Senior SWE TL @Google | ex Principal @RedHat | @ThanosMetrics @PrometheusIO | Bsky: bsky.app/profile/bwplot… | Efficient Go 📖 @OReillyMedia

London, England

Joined October 2015

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Bartłomiej Płotka
@bwplotka
Nov 19, 2022
My "Efficient Go" book with @OReillyMedia has been released!🎉 I wrote some words about the book, content and generally my experience writing it (with photos!): bwplotka.dev/book Good for a slow Saturday--maybe it will help you to decide to write your own book? 🤗
O'Reilly Media
@OReillyMedia
Nov 17, 2022
[NEW RELEASE] Efficient Go -- Author @bwplotka provides the tools and knowledge required to make your systems faster and less resource-hungry. oreil.ly/SyTuj #OReillyExperts
Bartłomiej Płotka
@bwplotka
Feb 14
🚨 ALERTS{alertname="NewBlogPost", alertstate="firing"} 1 I wrote about exciting and ambitious changes we are making in @PrometheusIO project: prometheus.io/blog/2026/02/1… Diving into the potential future of the "native" model for the composite metric types in Prometheus. 💪
Modernizing Prometheus: Native Storage for Composite Types | Prometheus
From prometheus.io
Bartłomiej Płotka
@bwplotka
Jan 26
"Make me care" is probably first rule to follow in tech talks too (:
gwern.net
First, Make Me Care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic...
Bartłomiej Płotka
@bwplotka
Nov 11, 2025
Woke up today to my blog post appearing on the top 10 of hacker news today! Sounds like my site is up on down due to concurrent traffic... 🙃 switched to higher provider tier, but if it's down, here is a backup link: web.archive.org/web/2025111107…
Bartłomiej Płotka
@bwplotka
Nov 10, 2025
Side projects, blog, podcasting is hard with 2 small kids, but I eventually managed to find time for a blog! (PS: I had to switch to 5am routine 🙈) Wrote some words about @DuffieldJesse #lazygit OSS tool and what we can learn from its UX. Enjoy! 🤗 bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
Bartłomiej Płotka
@bwplotka
Nov 10, 2025
100% this. We are in the cycle of "unifying things", which is like going back to monoliths for DBs, collection, SDKs etc. Tempting but maybe utopia? BUT no one blocks ppl from trying and learning on their mistakes (: We will see in 5y cycle to move back to dedicated solutions.
Aliaksandr Valialkin
@valyala
Nov 9, 2025
There are DevOps and SRE engineers who think that a unified database for metrics and logs is a good idea. This isn't a good idea from an operations perspective because of the following reasons: - Lower availability. If something wrong happens with the stored logs, there are high