Observability

Observability as an engineering discipline: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics design, and OpenTelemetry in systems that are actually hard to see into.

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Observability

Day 32: You Can't Improve What You Can't See. That Includes the Platform Itself.

This series covered observability for applications back on Day 13. The platform underneath those applications needs the identical discipline applied to itself — or the platform team finds out about outages from their users.

August 17, 2026 4 min read

Observability

Day 13: Monitoring Tells You It Broke. Observability Tells You Why.

A dashboard full of green checkmarks and an outage in progress can coexist. Monitoring answers known questions; observability lets you ask new ones when the known questions don't cover what's actually happening.

July 29, 2026 5 min read