Observability for Developers Demystified - OpenObservability Talks E2E12

Developers hate monitoring, but we need it. We need it in many points of the software development lifecycle: before deprecating an API, before launching a new feature, after launching the feature, and more. In fact, monitoring needs can vary much more than the classic Ops monitoring.

In this episode I’ll host Liran Haimovitch to discuss how to determine what developers should be monitoring, the difference between observability for Dev and for Ops, and how observability fits into our current dev tools, dev stack and dev processes.

Liran is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rookout. He’s an Observability and Instrumentation expert with a deep understanding of Java, Python, Node, and C++. Liran has broad experience in cybersecurity and compliance from his past roles. When not coding, you can find Liran hosting his podcast, speaking at conferences, writing about his tech adventures, and trying out the local cuisine when traveling.

The episode was live-streamed on 10 May 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/OaHQp-qnVN0 

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Show Notes:

• Which data do we need to collect for our observability
• How is observability for dev different from ops
• How does observability fit into dev tool stack
• Snapshots provide deep-dive telemetry signal
• Dynamic instrumentation
• Snapshots support in programming languages and runtimes
• Open source standardization around snapshots
• The cost associated with observability
• Google is applying to contribute Istio to the CNCF
• Shopify case study for observability team

Resources:

• Istio applying to the CNCF: https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/istio-has-applied-to-join-the-cncf/
• Shopify case study for Observability team: https://ericmustin.substack.com/p/notes-on-an-observability-team?s=r

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