Before the acceleration of modern DevOps practices, software engineers primarily wrote code. Now the job is so much more — from getting apps production-ready and iterating quickly to scale new services to architecting system compatibility and ensuring compliance and reliability — which has elevated the need for exceptional instrumentation. But what does great instrumentation involve and where should you begin?

I tackle the answer to this question in a new book on observability I co-authored along with Chronosphere’s co-founder and CEO, Martin Mao, and cloud-native expert, Kenichi Shibata — O’Reilly’s Cloud Native Monitoring: Practical Challenges and Solutions for Modern Architecture.