https://simme.dev/Recent content on Simon AronssonHugoen-usWed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/the-end-of-just-ask-sarah/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/the-end-of-just-ask-sarah/Documentation used to back up organizational memory. With agents, it becomes execution context.https://simme.dev/now/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/now/<h2 id="building">Building</h2> <p>This week I&rsquo;ve decided to focus on writing, so there are no exciting project updates to report.</p> <h2 id="reading">Reading</h2> <p>A <a href="https://cmustrudel.github.io/papers/msr2026he.pdf">paper</a> by the good folks at STRUDEL on how the speed of agentic development might come at the cost of quality.</p>https://simme.dev/posts/boring-code-is-an-organizational-tell/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/boring-code-is-an-organizational-tell/Why clever code is an organizational output, not an engineering one — and how agents turn a slow-moving problem into a fast one.https://simme.dev/posts/what-happens-if-you-give-an-ai-agent-a-home-instead-of-a-session/Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/what-happens-if-you-give-an-ai-agent-a-home-instead-of-a-session/My design goals for building an autonomous AI agent, rather than limiting it to interactive prompting session-by-session.https://simme.dev/posts/cos-lite-machine-sizer/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/cos-lite-machine-sizer/A sizing tool for COS Lite deployments. It used to live here but got lost in one of my many blog migrations. Now it&rsquo;s back!https://simme.dev/posts/building-a-dry-run-mode-for-the-opentelemetry-collector/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/building-a-dry-run-mode-for-the-opentelemetry-collector/Signal Studio explores a deficit in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem: how to assess the impact of changes to your config.yaml <em>before</em> rolling out in production.https://simme.dev/posts/building-this-page/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/building-this-page/This site has needed a facelift for years. Not because the technology was outdated, but because every previous version of this blog eventually died. Quietly.https://simme.dev/posts/who-watches-the-watchmen/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/who-watches-the-watchmen/The last couple of years, there has been quite a lot of development lowering the barrier of entry for observability. There are now quite a few, reasonably mature options out there that lets you set up a good monitoring stack either through a few clicks or by a few one-liners in the terminal.https://simme.dev/posts/error-economics/Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/error-economics/At SLOConf 2021 I talked about how we may use error budgets to add pass/fail criterias to reliability tests we run as part of our CI pipelines.https://simme.dev/posts/on-shaming-and-blaming/Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/posts/on-shaming-and-blaming/There are severe consequences of allowing shaming and blaming in your engineering culture. In this essay, I&rsquo;ll suggest a few small things you can do instead.https://simme.dev/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/about/<h2 id="what-i-work-on">What I work on</h2> <p>I&rsquo;m an engineering leader from eu-north-1 working at Canonical, where I focus on making observability accessible and valuable for teams of any size.</p> <p>My background is in open-source, developer communities, and building teams that ship.</p> <p>I spend most of my time on the boring end of the problem: how to keep systems understandable as they grow, how to make on-call something a team can sustain, and how to make sure engineers can assess the reliability and availability of what they produce.</p>https://simme.dev/resume/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://simme.dev/resume/