Metrics, tracking, & logging

Observability to Better Serverless Apps

What's your talk about?

Serverless computing brings with it a lot of convenience, but it also presents a number of challenges for existing tools and an operational mindset.

Is the goal to talk to developers about what to be thinking about when you instrument a serverless app?

Yeah, exactly, it's what developers should be thinking about. Basically, I think developers need to be in a mindset generally of instrumenting their applications not just in serverless but beyond. I think that with a more traditional system it was almost a nice to have, but observability becomes even more crucial for serverless applications. That's because you have far less ability to infer the health of your application through infrastructure alone.