Anyone know the details of how observability migrated from control theory to distributed computing? It’s been really weird for me to see a familiar concept turn unfamiliar. I see people acknowledge the provenance but haven’t found details. Is there a seminal paper?
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, as far as I can tell carried the idea in her own two hands.
You two would get along.
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yeah, that was my fault, for better or for worse. i've written more about it here, thenewstack.io/observability- and the technical definition as applied to software here, honeycomb.io/blog/so-you-wa
happy to chat more if you want, i am curious why you're curious :)
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(controls-flavored observability and event logging are central to a book on time I’m working on, and I was surprised to see the concept repeatedly crop up with reference to databases and services and things in the last year)
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