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finally got around to reading this piece that was going around last week. it's a great piece! although the title is actively misleading. i guess it's cool that "observability" is now considered title clickbait? 🤷‍♀️ medium.com/windmill-engin…
the throbbing heart of this piece is all about why testing and developing distributed systems is hard, in full painful glory. and ho boy is it hard.
he complains about the awkwardness of developing using prod tools. which .. sure, but that's not the key point here.
he complains about the awkwardness of developing using prod tools. which .. sure, but that's not the key point here.
the critical point here is not primarily that o11y is cumbersome for development, it's that o11y and a prod-like dev environment is now the ONLY OPTION that delivers reasonably trustworthy results. in other words,
~ make dev like prod, then
~ test in prod.
~ make dev like prod, then
~ test in prod.
