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The GeekNarrator
Kaivalya Apte
Observability Engineering with Liz Fong-Jones
54 minutes Posted Feb 3, 2024 at 6:09 pm.
Introduction
Understanding Observability Engineering
Guest Introduction: Liz Fong Jones
Liz's Journey to Field CTO at Honeycomb
Understanding Site Reliability Workbook Materials
Identifying Critical User Journeys
Different Types of Services and Their SLOs
Setting Up SLOs: Granularity and Number
Understanding Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
Common Mistakes in Setting Up SLOs
Cultivating an Observability-Driven Development Culture
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Join host Kaivalya Apte in this episode of The Geek Narrator Podcast as he discusses observability engineering with field CTO at Honeycomb, Liz Fong-Jones. They delve into the importance of observability for software engineers, the role of Honeycomb in popularizing this concept, and how observability has evolved over the years. Liz shares her experiences transitioning from being an SRE at Google to advocating for observability at Honeycomb and walking the journey from developer advocate to Field CTO. They discuss the definitions and misconceptions surrounding observability and elucidate on Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) & indicators (SLIs) and challenges they solve. Tune in for an informative and in-depth conversation on observability engineering.
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References:
Observability Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/observability-engineering/9781492076438/
 @Google  SRE book: https://sre.google/books/
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