CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

New Hosts and Formats, Observability Costs and Training

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