What single aspect of a system best predicts broken observability workflows? It’s not just *scale*, it’s *depth*.
And that’s why we need to talk more about deep systems. (Thread)
lightstep.com/blog/how-deep-…
It’s because what we control in production is so much smaller than what we’re responsible for.
To illustrate the fearsome scope of responsibility with real-world data, here are some anonymized @LightStepHQ customer system diagrams: