074 - Is Your Refrigerator Running?

Do you know how your system behaves in production? Can you tell what is normal and what is a problem? It can be all too easy to do a basic set up with a SaaS product and then stop thinking about what's happening in production, hoping that you'll be able to get to the data if there's a problem. In this episode, your hosts discuss the concept of Observability. If we want to be able to improve our systems, avoid problems, and get the right alerts then we must instrument our code for the right data and learn what our baseline actually looks like.