Building Observability for 99% Developers

Discover how to build observability into deployments for the majority of developers in this 28-minute talk by Jean Yang, CEO of Akita Software. Explore the challenges faced by small engineering teams in maintaining and deploying applications in the era of SaaS and APIs. Learn about the evolving needs for visibility, monitoring, and observability in modern software development, especially for teams without large DevOps resources. Gain insights into the state of observability today, the changing landscape of software practices, and innovative solutions like eBPF-based passive traffic listening and automatic traffic modeling. Understand how these approaches can help teams better manage their systems, deploy with confidence, and adapt to the "evolving software rainforest" of modern development.

Intro
Building observability for 99% developers
Hi, I'm Jean and I work on observability
First, there's the problem of sheer code volume...
Then there's the rise of microservices
Then there's the rise of APIs
Software development has changed
What the Software Development Life Cycle often looks like
Software practices that have gone out the window
The observability people have it right
It turns out there are a lot of developers outside of the ones we hear from
And they look different from who we're hearing from
The state of observability today
Our conversations about software development assume planned gardens
What embracing the evolving software rainforest means
Solution Part One: eBPF-based passive traffic listening
Solution Part Two: Automatic Traffic Modeling
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