Observability for Emerging Infra - What Got You Here Won't Get You There
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Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Monitoring is dead
I hate monitoring
Observability became contested
Complexity is exploding
What is observability
Why we drink
Monitoring is opera
Observability is about
Complexity is rising
How to measure complexity
Lampstack vs Parse
Example problems
Best practices
Examples
PTSD
Unknown Unknowns
Symptoms
Instrumentation
Distributed Tracing
Metrics
Metrics vs Events
Cardinality
Platforms
Structured Data
Dashboards
Dashboard Rot
Why I Hate Dashboards
Every Dashboard is an Artifact of a Past Failure
Dashboards Must Die Once I Am Queen
You Really Want Raw Requests
Every Single Needle Should Be Findable
Right Time Aggregation
Black Swans
Test in Production
Generalist Software Engineers
Excessive Min
WorkLife Balance
Watching It Run
Distributed Systems
What You Win
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