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AI has changed what's possible in software systems. Observability hasn't caught up. This manifesto lays out a path forward.

I completely agree w/ your points about why observability sucks: - Too much setup - Too much maintenance - Too steep of a learning curve This isn't the whole picture, but it's a hu…

Vibe-coders don't comprehend how the code works, yet they can create impressive apps that are completely functional. I don't see why the same isn't true for "vibe-fixers" and their…

You're so right. > We'll have solved the problem when AI detects the problem and submits the bug fix before the engineers wake up. Working on it :)

You're not the first person I've met that has articulated an idea like this. It sounds amazing. Do you have an idea about why this approach isn't broadly popular?

These are great. I should have included them in my timeline! Huge fan of historical artifacts like Cantrill's ACM paper

This is a super insightful comment & there is a bunch that I want to respond to but I can't do it all neatly in one comment. Hahaha I'll choose this point: > reliability is still u…

Hello! Yes, you are right - observability and APM have both been around for many decades, but the incarnations that most people are familiar with are the ones that emerged in the 2…

Wow, this is great. I have been using Inngest for over a year now and really like the APIs you guys have created for defining step functions / event handlers. I'm very glad to see …

I've been programming for 15 years now, 10 years professionally, and have worked at 5 startups. These are my reflections on the first decade of my career. Also, an announcement: I’…

Congrats LC team! I don't have much experience w/ "vanilla" LangChain or the LC Python tools, but I've been an avid user of Deployments and the LangGraph TypeScript SDK for like a …

Love this. As engineers, we need to do better than reviewing in the GH web interface...

I love the idea that typed languages create backpressure. I have very little confidence in peoples' ability to create well-designed (in software architecture terms) projects.

At the very least, this experience has made me question the conventional wisdom that microservices = good and monolith = bad.

My company is in the process of building out an integration test suite for our microservices platform. A few pain points: 1. The tests themselves are housed in a separate repositor…

Postman can be handy for quick and dirty HTTP tests. Unfortunately, I find the Postman GUI unintuitive. The alternative -- working with minified JSON -- is equally painful. Edit: E…