Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Observability in the wild: strategies that work

Jun 16, 2022

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Kindness to Your Future Self

02:01

Quality Over Quantity in Alerts

01:24

Is There a Stick That Just Didn't Work?

04:46

Application Monitoring - How Critical Is Your Application?

02:56

Introduction

3min

I Can't Believe It's You. You're Here. All Right.

2min

The Future of Engineering Monitoring

3min

How Do You Make Your Future Better?

3min

Is There a Stick That Just Didn't Work?

5min

Observability and Criticality

2min

Application Monitoring - How Critical Is Your Application?

3min

Fire Hydrant - The Reliability Platform for Every Developer

5min

Getting Central Teams to Buy In

6min

10.

The Comagata of Delivering Value, Right?

2min

11.

Is There a Drill in the Environment?

3min

12.

Is There a Benefit of Drills?

4min

13.

Acuity Doio Slash Change Log

3min

14.

Is There a Bug Bounty for Alerts?

2min

15.

Lego - How Much Does Open Source Tooling Make It Easier?

2min

16.

The Power of Open Source Technologies

5min

17.

Is There Anything You Want to Say to Your Future Self?

2min

18.

Then We Won't Do It.

3min

This week we’re featuring an episode of Grafana’s Big Tent! LEGO Group principal engineer Nayana Shetty swaps observability survival stories (to drill or not to drill?) with hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback. The trio also reveals new and different observability strategies that have been successful and effective in their organizations.

Plus: Nayana shares how she built her successful observability career brick by brick.

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Featuring:

Nayana Shetty – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Matt Toback – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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