Turn Big Failures into Little Failures, and Learn from the Future with Observability

At a recent Test in Production Meetup, Christine Yen, CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb, discussed how observability can help with "owning code in production." She emphasized the importance of developers being comfortable in production and considering not just whether their code works, but also if it works in production. Observability is an ability that a team has to understand what their systems are doing in production, supported by tools but ultimately tied to processes and people on the team. By looking at production during various stages of software development, developers can debug issues, build the right software, write better pre-production tests, test in production, and improve their understanding of how code impacts performance. This approach fosters a collaborative culture between dev and ops teams, allowing them to work together to deliver better software to customers.