Chartbeat Engineering internally came up with a set of best practices on naming things (watch for a future blog post on this!). Here’s a follow up that points out that tests need sane names too.

SoundCloud published details on their open-source service monitoring system, Prometheus, which is doing some interesting stuff with multi-dimensional querying.

The folks at Atlassian have come up with a better pull request: compare changes against the tip of master and see conflicts as they occur. File that in the department of “duh why weren’t we doing that before?”