Computer scientist Jean Yang, founder and CEO of monitoring and observability platform Akita, tells the home team how her drive to improve developer tooling led her from academia to Silicon Valley.
Today, it’s easier than ever for a team to monitor software in production. But it's also easy to build up a lot of tech debt around monitoring.
Most organizations struggle to change their culture or find a formula for success in difficult-to-mature processes. They don't always understand their own systems.
The days of traditional application monitoring are fading. Applications today are no longer a single program, but a network of services connected by API and RPC endpoints across cloud containers that are created and removed as needed.
Your DevOps team might already be singing the praises of their observability platforms. But developers can benefit from them, too.
On this sponsored episode of the Stack Overflow Podcast, we talk with Greg Leffler of Splunk about the keys to instrumenting an observable system and how the OpenTelemetry standard allows you to avoid vendor lock in.
Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.
As our applications move from local hardware to a sprawling array of clouds and containers, figuring out how they behave and what's gone wrong is key.
