Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently
In the DevOps/SRE world, everything is dead depending on who you ask, and where you pick your morning tea from. 😛 Every week, there’s one piece dedicated to a tombstone claiming the death of DevOps, or SRE, of o11y or monitoring, or ‘Platform’ Engineering, or whatever new thing props up. It’s all dead. Then it gets resurrected. Then it gets a new spin, and a shiny new definition.
Buzzwords, definitions and nomenclature are plenty in this industry. Practical implications for folks struggling with how to get rid of their massive DataDog bills and taming their insane cardinality: well, let’s not talk about those, aye.
Don’t even get me started on research and advisory firms, and what they’re peddling. I read a report published in 2019 about what the future portends in 2021, and it was being publicised as a 2022 phenomena, that was sold in 2023. And we’re at 2024, and none of what they envisaged is even remotely true.
Then, there are these vague ones that question my sanity. Favourite among them: ‘Applied’ Observability. It’s basically Observability, but it’s being ‘applied’; as in, used in practice. Because o11y by itself was not. Apparently. Errr… Ok then.
