Episode 53
New Hosts and Formats, Observability Costs and Training
Sven Johann talks to Heinrich Hartmann and Alexander Heusingfeld about the cost of observability
CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering
February 3, 20251h 21m
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Show Notes
Sven Johann talks to Heinrich Hartmann and Alexander Heusingfeld about the cost of observability
- How Buildings Learn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowBuildingsLearn
- Big Ball of Mud, http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#BigBallOfMud
- Coinbase USD 65M bill from Datadog, https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/datadog-65m-year-customer-mystery/
- Observability by Ben Sigelman, https://medium.com/lightstephq/observability-will-never-replace-monitoring-because-it-shouldnt-eeea92c4c5c9
- Charity Majors, GOTO Amsterdam, Observability 2.0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2ykPO805M
- Hillel Wayne, SRECon Keynote, “Are we really engineers?”, https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/wayne
Chapter Marks:
- 00:00:00 New hosts, new formats
- 00:12:40 Observability Costs
- 00:29:03 Observability Training
- 01:06:10 Engineering vs. Software Engineering
- 01:18:03 Wrapping up
Topics
ObservabilityDevOpsSoftwareArchitecture