2026-01-05

Observability 2026

Via TNS: Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026? by B. Cameron Gain considers various topics from data lakes to OTel, and how things may develop in 2026.

O11y and AI-SRE

The one and only Andrew Mallaband sharing good insights in Observability 2025: What Lies Beyond AI-SRE in 2026.

Learn observability

Stumbled upon a new hands-on course covering Observability, OpenTelemetry & SRE: learnobservability.com.

Debugging web apps

John Gallagher made a 15 min tutorial video available: check out 98% Less Downtime: My 5-Step System for Debugging Web Apps where he walks you through fixing a real production bug in a Ruby on Rails web app.

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