Observability Engineering by Charity Majors

Observability Engineering

Achieving Production Excellence

Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda

O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · June 14, 2022

Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems.

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Who it’s for
A grounded guide to observability, from code instrumentation and debugging to its effects on team culture.
Genres
Software Development, Cloud Computing, Testing & QA
Published
O'Reilly Media, June 14, 2022

About this book

Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems. Teams that adopt observability are much better equipped to ship code swiftly and confidently, identify outliers and aberrant behaviors, and understand the experience of each and every user. This practical book explains the value of observable systems and shows you how to practice observability-driven development.

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Authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda from Honeycomb explain what constitutes good observability, show you how to improve upon what you're doing today, and provide practical dos and don'ts for migrating from legacy tooling, such as metrics, monitoring, and log management. You'll also learn the impact observability has on organizational culture (and vice versa). You'll explore: - How the concept of observability applies to managing software at scale - The value of practicing observability when delivering complex cloud native applications and systems - The impact observability has across the entire software development lifecycle - How and why different functional teams use observability with service-level objectives - How to instrument your code to help future engineers understand the code you wrote today - How to produce quality code for context-aware system debugging and maintenance - How data-rich analytics can help you debug elusive issues

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A grounded guide to observability, from code instrumentation and debugging to its effects on team culture.

Come here for

  • A practical way to think about observability across software teams
  • Guidance on debugging complex systems and moving beyond legacy monitoring

Expect

  • Practical advice for improving observability and migrating from older tools
  • A view of observability across the software lifecycle, not just during incidents

Where it sits

Software Development49%
Cloud Computing44%
Testing & QA32%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Data Warehousing
  • Software Development
Authors
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
June 14, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Data Warehousing