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Is it time to version observability?

Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…

Metrics are a terrible building block for understanding rich data, because you have to discard all that valuable context at write time, and they don’t support high (or even medium!) Five years from now, I predict that the center of gravity will have swung dramatically; all modern engineering teams will be powering their telemetry off of tools backed by wide, structured log events, not metrics. But trying to teach teams of engineers to wrangle metrics, to squeeze the questions they want to ask into multiple abstract formats scattered across many different tools, with no visibility into what they’re doing until it comes out eventually in form of a giant bill… it’s fucking hard.

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