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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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Some of what you’re seeing conceptually parallels the early chapters of Seeing Like a State. Losing legibility as complexity rises, metrics for components of a system taken as metrics for the whole, abstraction sans synthesis, bureaucrats (“professional” management) overseeing
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