Effective observability in microservice architectures

This talk will focus on how to create an effective observability system in microservice architectures. This talk focuses on which observability practices and microservice architecture patterns align well and set microservice organizations up for success.

One example of effective techniques includes having consistency across all services since this consistency can centralize the definition of observability & what it means to have an “observable” system, make it easier to set up observability for services, and enable engineers to troubleshoot production issues across their own services and service dependencies.

Another example is having SLOs that align well with microservice ownership. Much like any given team should not own more than a few services, any given team also should not own more than a few different SLOs. I will dive into the organizational benefits that microservices provides and SRE reinforces by implementing SLOs.

Thirdly, how the main units of an observable system (events) align well with event-driven microservices. I will go into specifics on how events, logs, metrics, and traces relate to one another.