Developing Observable Applications for Production

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How to make production applications observable by instrumenting code to gather concrete data for debugging and performance analysis. Covers the three pillars of observability, where to place observation points, which visualizations to prioritize, and the tools available to support instrumentation and analysis.

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1. 0:00Introduction by Pierre Zemb
2. 2:07Introduction to the topic
3. 7:08The benefits of open source
4. 10:29The software doesn’t stop there
5. 14:10Finding the butterfly that caused the tornado
6. 17:40Debugging
7. 18:50The 3 steps of debugging
8. 20:03The developer’s responsibility
9. 21:37What can I do?
10. 21:52What are the first questions an on-call person asks?
11. 22:20What are on-call methods?
12. 23:26What are monitoring methods?
13. 24:37The 4 elements to watch
14. 26:00The 4 elements to measure
15. 26:57How to instrument?
16. 28:46Logs
17. 30:36Metrics
18. 31:42Tracing
19. 33:42OpenTelemetry
20. 35:25Visualization
21. 37:47Example of saturation
22. 39:33Graphical representation of CPU time
23. 41:18Lazy graph
24. 44:47Acknowledgments

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