The World of Observability

As apps and services continue to be built at breakneck speed, Observability has moved from a “nice to have” to an absolute requirement for any system that supports a business. Beyond high-level business metrics that guide strategy and decision-making, Observability — through performance, availability, and reliability metrics — gives teams the insight they need to make better technical decisions, maximize uptime, maintain strong performance, and quickly identify areas that need attention.

Let’s start with some fundamentals – “What is Observability” and “How do you get it implemented across your organisation” and “what are the considerations“.

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In the World of CHAOS

As businesses continue to go digital and with evolution of devices and high-speed internet, the end-user expectations are continuing to increase. With several critical digital infrastructure now moving on to the internet, ensuring these systems remain highly available and resilient to failure is a given for every new system and application design.

If you belong to the world of Performance Engineering or are part of any digital technology delivery, you will have heard of the new terminology called “Chaos Engineering” being thrown around. Let’s get ourselves introduced to this new term and what to expect.

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.

https://principlesofchaos.org/
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Consulting – What’s that like?

It’s been about two years at my first consultancy in my decade-old career and “I’m Lovin’ It!”.

Having started my career with a bank and after working my way up the chain for almost a decade after which I thought I was done. At that point I knew I wanted to do something different. But then came along a small to mid-sized testing services consultancy. I didn’t know what to expect. What kind of clients will I have? What do I need to prepare for? How will I manage constantly changing expectations and environments?

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