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Sasha Sharma
Senior Solution Architect
Sasha is a recent convert to the dark side of sales engineering from software engineering. She is a Bay Area native, graduated from UC Davis, and has been in San Francisco ever since. She knows all the good hiking trails from the 925 to the 650. She loves books and is always looking for a recommendation (a fun fact about her: she re-reads the Harry Potter books every year). She also has a big doggo who is her partner in crime on most of her hiking adventures.
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Dashboards Can Be More Than Just Expensive TV
Someone once described dashboards to me as “expensive TV for software engineers.” At first, I stood there quietly shocked—dashboards had informed many root cause analyses (RCAs) in my life as a developer. Dashboards can be expensive TV—and sometimes even harmful false cocoons of safety (“Uh, p90 looks okay 🤷♀️!”) —but, approached instead with an analytical lens, they should be a pulse check for overall system health and a jumping-off point for investigations.