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Data, Math, and Engineering | Sr. Dir. Data & Observability @cloudflare | ex- Hubble Telescope ex- Vercel | 🇧🇷 🇺🇸

Chicago, IL
Joined July 2012
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Me and a band of plucky misfits (@maks_mak_0 and a few others), codename the Alertocats 🙀, have started rebuilding Cloudflare's whole notifications and alerting experience. First up: a brand new UI. Find it in the dash at Observability → Alerts 👇
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more new OTEL tracing APIs in the Workers runtime from @JeremyMorrell: spanContext() setStatus() updateName() say it with me now — OpenTelemetry with zero dependencies developers.cloudflare.com/ch…
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
One week later, Pele is already in dozens of apps including @obsdmd 1.15 and @bot! Many improvements this week: - Even faster rendering! - Math resolver support: KaTeX, MathJax, Temml, etc - Gradients in sankey diagrams - Fewer edge crossings in diagrams with subgraphs - Subscript, superscript and inline code in labels + text styles: kbd, underline, ins, cite and others On a personal note, I am so grateful for all the love Pele received! I truly did not expect it. My hope with Pele was to get a few bug reports ahead of the Obsidian release, so it's a wonderful feeling to see it adopted so quickly. I take this as a great honor and responsibility. If you added Pele to your app or website, feel free to share it below 🌋
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
Cloudflare previous CTO sent this into our bug bounty. We are investigating.
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The amount of design thought that went into the humble update dialog by @almonk at @superlogical is insane. Truly unhinged levels of obsession. Sparks joy every single time.
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
Same offer from @Cloudflare. 100 free passes to Cloudflare Connect in SF this week for folks with cancelled GHC registrations. Email [email protected]. First come first serve.
We still want to find a way to bring the community together. If you planned to be in California for the Grace Hopper Celebration, I invite you to join us this year for GitHub Universe, Oct 28-29. 🌉 We've set aside 75 complimentary passes for folks with cancelled registrations. While this doesn't replace the conference and Universe has far fewer attendees than GHC, my hope is that it does give folks an opportunity to connect with each other. 📷 DM the GitHub team on LinkedIn or email me at [email protected] (first come first serve).
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now. Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!
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Two of our open roles: - Senior Engineering Manager, Observability: lnkd.in/gbhiFNNy - Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical Database Platform: lnkd.in/gEBUPGj8
Amazing blogpost from the Data Team here at @Cloudflare on how we optimized our ClickHouse platform and gained 2.5 YEARS of hardware runway. If you've tried to by hardware this year, you know that's a huge win! And as always, we're hiring :) blog.cloudflare.com/rewindin…
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Amazing blogpost from the Data Team here at @Cloudflare on how we optimized our ClickHouse platform and gained 2.5 YEARS of hardware runway. If you've tried to by hardware this year, you know that's a huge win! And as always, we're hiring :) blog.cloudflare.com/rewindin…
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Love seeing @_wperron reunited with @rough__sea and @deno_land friends at @Cloudflare today. 🎉 😃 We’re going to build some great stuff together!! 🚀
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new — profile Workers CPU and memory in production npx cf@latest workers versions profile latest \      --worker-id "$WORKER_ID_OR_NAME" \      --duration-ms 5000 \      --profile-type cpu > worker-cpu.pprof views flamegraphs in the dash or give your agent a pprof file to dig into blog.cloudflare.com/workers-… 👏 @d0m96
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
This isn't your typical acquisition blog post. I'm really excited not just that @rough__sea, @piscisaureus, and friends are joining, but also what they plan to work on: Making workerd a first-class, self-hostable open source runtime. Read for more: blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joi…
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
trying to imagine explaining to myself 10 years ago that we made a Markov chain so long that the pope is mad about it
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This looks sooo soothing, I can just hear the Lofi Girl beats.
I'm glad people are liking our little mascot, Rexie! I'm proud to say that Rexie, along with all our beautiful deck icons were all drawn by human artists. And I think you can feel that in the way they look and feel compared to other software. True artistry at work.
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One of the craziest things about birthday week is we STILL have a packed roadmap of new features, improvements, and fixes for this quarter. 🤩 We’re just getting started. 🚀
cloudflare observability is now amongst the best in the industry all logs in one place, tracing (and detailed tracing, at that!), sql api, custom alerting, cdn logs now available to all via logpush, custom dashboards. oh, and built-in error monitoring (issues)
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Introducing Cloudflare Observability We've been improving our Observability game in Cloudflare the last 2 years with Workers but now we're making OBS great platform wide! blog.cloudflare.com/one-obse… Tons of massive announcements today, I'll go through each of them one by one:
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Loving our observability Birthday Week announcements today? Check out our EM role! YOU could have the privilege - and it really is a privilege - of managing @JeremyMorrell @ibbykhajanchi @_wperron @thomas_ankcorn @mattsimpsn @WalshyDev and more! job-boards.greenhouse.io/clo…
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(I promise not -everyone- on this team is terminally online)
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Alex C. Viana retweeted
Cloudflare Tracing is now in open beta 🚀 Our teams rely on traces everyday to understand what happens to a request as it moves through our platform. Cloudflare Traces brings that same visibility to you. ✅Get automatic spans throughout the entire request ✅Control what gets traced with trace rules ✅Propagate traces across your stack a la W3C trace context ✅Query traces through our dashboard, SQL API or Cloudflare MCP ✅Export traces to any OTLP-compatible destination
Introducing Cloudflare Traces Today we're launching Cloudflare Traces, a way for you to get an unprecedented view into requests going through Cloudflare! Why was a request blocked? Why did a request fail? Why was a request slow? Find out with Traces! blog.cloudflare.com/cloudfla…
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It’s time!!! I’m so excited to showcase what we’ve been working on. 🚀 And if all this is interesting to you - our observability team is hiring an EM 👇 job-boards.greenhouse.io/clo…
Introducing Cloudflare Observability We've been improving our Observability game in Cloudflare the last 2 years with Workers but now we're making OBS great platform wide! blog.cloudflare.com/one-obse… Tons of massive announcements today, I'll go through each of them one by one:
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