Solving this is the entire purpose of Solarwinds and we see what kinds of risk trade offs you get… I lived this for years and there’s just no easy solutions he

Solving this is the entire purpose of Solarwinds and we see what kinds of risk trade offs you get… I lived this for years and there’s just no easy solutions here. I don’t care what kind of application you’re building, if you want to be able to reliably deliver good service and iterate in any type of scientific fashion, you must-have great observability. This is not a suggestion. It is simply creating the situation where you can run experiments and understand the impact of changes to your system. But that means you need to significantly invest in not only the technical tooling, but the people, education and procedural things that are necessary to think in a data oriented way. That is something that is excessively hard to convince people to do because it’s so seemingly boring. The real siren here is push button observability, and automation like with solar winds. Everyone would love to be able to have State machine level determinism, and monitoring to tell you which distinct state you’re in. I’ve yet to find an org that can comfortably manage and exploit that level of granular observability. This is an amazing article that every engineer should read.