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Deep Systems Broke Observability – and What We Can Do About It (medium.com/lightstephq)
2 points by lneeson on Oct 29, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Excerpt:

"From the ingress frontend that handled the query down through the depths of the serving system, there were more than 20 layers of microservices! The complexity was mesmerizing, though also somewhat terrifying; who could possibly understand a system that deep? With conventional tools at the time, the answer was simple: nobody."

Easily one of my top-ten favorite articles on HN.




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