Book summary: Distributed Systems Observability

“Distributed Systems Observability” is a book from Cindy Sridharan (find her on twitter, and medium), available as a free download here (registration required). At a little over 30 pages and 8,000 words, it is not a difficult read, and I definitely recommend it.

 

 

 

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Tags: itestinprod, logs, metrics, observability, production, Testing, testinginproduction, tracing

Post Production Debugging

Monitoring and Observing Your App Post Release

Pre-release tests are essential, but the ability to debug, monitor and observe your application suite post-release is what allows you to detect, and quickly fix, the production problems that will inevitably rise.

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Tags: apdex, KPIs, monitoring, mttd, mttf, mttr, o11y, observability, production, SLAs, testinginproduction