Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
charity.wtfAugh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…
I spent some time recently catching up on my #to-read saves in Obsidian. More than a few of these were blog posts from 2024 about software observability. Talk of "redefining observability", "observability 2.0", and "try Honeycomb" had caught my eye in a few spaces, and so I had been hoarding links on the topic. After spending a few days immersing myself in those articles and branching out to others, I decided to write this bullet-form roundup.
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) By Charity Majors
The existing articles on Wide Events define the concept well but leave the implementation details to the reader.
a blog?
The "three pillars" are a lie that keep good engineers trapped inside a mental model from the 1980s, paying outrageous sums of money for tooling that can't keep up with the complexity of modern systems.