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Instrumentation and Observability Culture

Instrumentation and Observability Culture

Measure First, Innovate Second

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Jun 02, 2025
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When reading "Working Backwards" by Amazon employees, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, a particular quote resonated with me, given my experiences working with successful engineering teams.

The most successful teams invested much of their early time in removing dependencies and building "instrumentation"—our term for infrastructure used to measure every importa…

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