Tag Archives: observability

Send Metrics Not Logs

This is part of a series on observability, a concept taking hold in modern software engineering. One of the interesting things I saw in an engineering presentation on Observability from Chik-Fil-A was that they are sometimes bandwidth-constrained at remote sites. … Continue reading

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Invisible Downtime

This article has a concept I’ve never heard about: invisible downtime. This is the idea that there are problems in your application that the customer sees. Your servers are running, but the application doesn’t work correctly or is pausing with … Continue reading

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