Tag Distributed Tracing

Systems Engineering

When Microservices Created More Problems Than They Solved

The monolith had become difficult to work with. Deployments were getting larger. Teams were stepping on each other. Some parts of the system needed to scale independently. A small change in one area could require deploying the entire application. The…

Systems Engineering

When Observability Saved Us From a Blameless Post-Mortem

The system was slow. But the dashboards looked healthy. We had CPU utilization under 50%. Memory was stable. Error rates were below 1%. Our monitoring alerts weren’t triggering. And yet customers were complaining about slowness. This was the contradiction we…