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When distributed systems Go wrong

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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The Fundamental Principle of Monitoring Is Observability

The ability to let you know something's wrong in the first place is that very basic bottom tier of monitoring. If you don't have the mechanism for collecting that high fidelity data, then of course, you build on top of that to try to catch the thing when it's happening. How do you decide to go from rebooting the server to trying to find out and fix the problem? "I'm not surprised at all that Google collects everything," he says.

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