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OpenTelemetry - with Martin Thwaites
The Unhandled Exception Podcast
Observability
The idea of observability is based in science. It's a scientific concept of control theory, i believe. When we talk about alert triggers, that stuff, they're all based on those signals that you get out of your application. So that's a layer on top of being able to alert when things happen. We used to just say, did i get more than 500 errors in the last ten seconds? Ok, go and get somebody out of bed. The problem is, when you're talking about high load systems, it's no longer relevantthose 500 requests just could be somebody sending us duff data. There's a movement toward something called service level objectives, which use level indicators to
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