Driving old, beat-up cars is both a treat and a nightmare, especially when it comes to figuring out why they’ve stopped working (this time). In many ways, diagnosing issues with any old car feels not-at-all dissimilar to monitoring for and diagnosing failures in software. In this talk, I walk through some of the lessons my old junker has taught me about designing monitoring for software in the messy, icky, dammit-I-busted-knuckle-again real-world and how you can apply them to your own apps.
Mike Julian is the author of O’Reilly’s Practical Monitoring, the Editor of the Monitoring Weekly newsletter, and an independent monitoring consultant. Before embarking off as a consultant, he worked as an Ops Engineer for Taos Consulting, Peak Hosting, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.