DevOps

“Monitoring” and “observability” are not the same thing, even though the words are often used interchangeably. Monitoring tells you when a pre-defined thing has gone wrong. Observability is whether you can answer new questions about system behaviour - including questions you had not thought to ask when you built the dashboards. This page groups tools by what they do rather than by vendor, because most real production stacks combine several of them. ...

Conferences are an inefficient way to learn a specific skill and an excellent way to discover what the rest of the industry is struggling with this year. The ones below are the events I either attend or watch closely, grouped by focus area. Large vendor conferences These are the flagship events run by the major cloud and software vendors. Content is partly marketing, but the architectural talks and customer case studies are genuinely useful. ...