JohnScolaro

> We had a budget alert (€80) and a cost anomaly alert, both of which triggered with a delay of a few hours. By the time we reacted, costs were already around €28,000.

I had a similar experience with GCP where I set a budget of $100 and was only emailed 5 hours after exceeding the budget by which time I was well over it.

It's mind boggling that features like this aren't prioritized. Sure it would probably make Google less money short term, but surely that's more preferable to providing devs with such a poor experience that they'd never recommend your platform to anyone else again.

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'm relatively new to working on this type of system (large scale, event driven) and half posted because I know there are people on HN way better than me at this, and was curious about their opinions.

In the end, what's the difference between a log and a metric? Is one structured, and one unstructured? Is one a giant blob of text, and the other stored in a time series db? At the moment I guess I'm "logging my metrics" with structured logs going into Loki which can then unwrap and plot things.

You and the other commenters have given me the vocabulary to dig more into this area on the internet though. Thanks!

This was shared with me years ago by another developer I worked with. I still reference it today as I continue my external battle with the complexity demon.

Oh I can 100% see where all of that comes from too.

I think a lot of Brisbanes secret beauty is well hidden from people just visiting. The temperate rainforests, glasshouse mountains, some of the best beaches in the world all within an hours drive. The strange birds, the general attitude of the public. I think it's all quite nice. My only personal gripe is that I think it's far too hot in summer!

I'm also extremely biased though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Brisbane does have an awful lot of mediocrity too, but I'm still proud of it, and keen to show it off in 2032 with the Olympics!

What a fantastic write-up. As a Brisbane native and software developer I often feel similarly to the author about Brisbane's software dev scene. Brisbane so often feels like a backwater, with the big dogs down in Melbourne and Sydney, and the 'peak of industry' in the US.

I'd love to move to Seattle and work for Amazon or something to get 'relevant industry experience' but what I'd really love to do is make a go of it here because - like the author - I believe Brisbane is secretly still the best city in the world ;-)

If this is an idle game, why do I need to log in?

Couldn't you store the game state in localStorage or something?