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This is the first post in a series of postings inspired by a recent viewing of the Apple TV+ series See. The show depicts a dystopian future where the human race has lost the sense of sight, and socie

Modern APM requires more than just "paying attention." How you look at data, and how your recognize what you're looking at are just as important.

Once upon a time, there was a period in the world where humans watched over applications and services by proxy via dashboards housed on multiple screens hoisted in front of them - a typical mission co

In my previous post, Observability Normalized, I talked about the importance of a local observer, an agent or library, being able to discern contextual boundaries and inturn normal forms (objects of<

Now and then, an observability or monitoring article will be posted pitting agent and agentless based architectures against each other. This is unfortunate as it often results in many not seeing the r

In my last post, I discussed the data fog of observability. In this post, I would like to draw attention to one important aspect lost in the data fog that is not given enough attention by those observ

We're coming to the end of 2019, a year in which we have seen Observability, as a malleable term or concept, gain widespread exposure and attention from software vendors and engineering communities.

Each new day we see observability attached to some other aspect of software and system engineering. Observability pipelines. Observability platforms. It is clear others want the love shown to observab

The four "C"s of the biggest challenges Ops faces when dealing with modern applications - Compexity, Change, Control and Connections.