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Sherman advises against building logging or metrics systems from scratch

Zach Sherman · A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Dec 5, 2018 · at 13:35

Zach Sherman, co-founder of Timber, advises data engineers at Data Driven NYC on navigating telemetry system architecture choices.

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“I would recommend you don't build a logging or metric system from scratch, and you pull something off the shelf.”

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