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"[An Observability] Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events" That's how I would have titled it.
by esafak 2y ago
"[An Observability] Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events"
That's how I would have titled it.
- zahlman 2y agoOkay, and why would people who aren't already in the field have any idea about your specific jargon meaning of "observability"? My browser's spellcheck underlines that. My understanding of ordinary English turns it into "the fact, of something which can be observed, that it can be observed" which is... supremely unenlightening. I get that HN isn't appealing to the general population, but the world of programmers etc. is still quite broad.
- esafak 2y agoIt seems to be the primary meaning in software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability_(software)
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoYou’ve made a lot of critical comments here. You are obviously the one who is not understanding or is perhaps misunderstanding something. Observability is a pretty standard term in software development. Events have nothing per se to do with logging or tracing, but you can visualize/trace events with logs/spans. From my perspective, you seem to misunderstand a lot in the article, I am not judging you for that, just observing this. I suggest you try to understand the gist of the article instead of scolding the language used.
- zahlman 2y agoYou're missing the point. My complaint is not about the article content. My complaint is about the fact that the submission title does not adequately prepare anyone to understand what the article will be about.
- macintux 2y agoThat’s a recurring theme on HN. The site prefers the original title, and not every blog post has a title that adequately prepares one for the contents, especially since many blogs have a recurring theme.
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoI had a very fine idea about what the article would be about from reading the title. You’re being unreasonable about this IMO.
- zahlman 2y agoI don't understand why I should have had any such idea, given that I've been programming for thirty-five years and yesterday was literally the first day I even heard (well, saw) the word "observability" used this way, never mind that it isn't in the title. I also already suggested an alternative and I don't see what would be wrong with it.
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoAgain this pattern that “you don’t understand, so others should change something”. Again: not judging, just observing. Consider that you are perhaps the minority ¯\_(ツ)_/¯