The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.
It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder, kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders. Interestingly, nearly all of them seem to have coalesced around “area of scope” as a useful proxy for level. At first glance, “area of scope” does seem to make sense. Senior engineers should be able to work across larger areas of the organization. In addition, your area of influence should expand as you gain experience.
Whether you’ve just started your observability journey or haven’t started one at all, Techstrong Research is here to help the industry gain insights into observability with their “Observability at the Speed of Innovation 2022” survey, sponsored by StackState. Techstrong Research, an industry analyst and consulting group focused on the business outcomes of disruptive technologies, is researching where organizations are in their observability journey.
Having joined Grafana Labs as one of our first data & analytics hires, I spent much of my time in the first few months considering how we should structure our data stack to optimize for a quick path to value, while allowing our small data team to scale going forward.
We’re delighted to announce that Lightrun for Web IDEs is now available for our beta users! Lightrun for the Web is now supported in three different IDEs: If you want to check out the individual plugins, check out the respectable documentation articles: Lightrun’s users are now able to connect to their live applications directly from the browser, without having to download one of our dedicated plugins – and enjoy the full suite of Lightrun features right in the browser.
