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Coverage of trends, shifts, and developments across observability, monitoring, logging, Kubernetes, cloud, and modern software engineering. Insightful updates and analysis for anyone keeping an eye on where the space is heading.

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The Observability Reckoning Is Here. It's Why I'm at Grepr.

Observability was supposed to help teams control complexity in the cloud era. For many organizations, it has become one of the fastest-growing line items in the budget.
February 23, 2026
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Why Automated Context Is the Real Future of Observability

The observability industry keeps building smarter tools on top of the same noisy data, and a recent post from a Sr. Engineering Manager at Walmart shows exactly why that approach hits a wall.
February 18, 2026
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The Ferrari Problem in AI Infrastructure (and Why It Applies to Your Observability Bill Too)

The same discipline required to right-size AI compute infrastructure applies directly to observability, where defaulting to ingest everything drives massive costs for data that never gets queried.
February 9, 2026

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