A client had six monitoring tools and still couldn't diagnose a production incident in under an hour. The problem wasn't the tools — it was what happens when observability grows by accretion instead of design.
- Published On
Hello, I'm Luke
Personal blog about my experiences and thoughts on software development.
Latest Posts
- A startup founder built their MVP almost entirely with AI coding agents. It worked. Then they hired a team, and within two months nobody could ship anything. I got called in to figure out why.
- Published On
- A client's PostgreSQL writes were getting slower every quarter. The table had 57 indexes. Only 14 of them were ever used. Every INSERT and UPDATE was paying a tax nobody had thought to audit.
- Published On
- A client's API was getting measurably slower every week. The dashboards were green, the alerts were silent, and the database looked healthy. The problem was hiding in plain sight — on the container's local disk.
- Published On
- A client's staging environment had drifted so far from production that developers stopped using it. Tests passed in staging and failed in prod. Tests failed in staging and passed in prod. Eventually the team just stopped looking.
- Published On