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Observability 101
Observability is the hot new tech buzzword. Observability is confused with many other practices, such as monitoring, tracing, logging, telemetry, and instrumentation. But observability is a superset of all these, and all are required to achieve observability. It includes measuring your infrastructure, application, and user experience to understand how they are doing and then acting on the findings with predictive or reactive solutions.
One of the benefits of working with older technologies was the limited set of defined failure modes. Yes, things broke, but you would know what went wrong at any given time, or you could find out quickly because many older systems repeatedly failed in the same ways. As systems became more ...
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