Metrics & Mayhem
A CTO's guide to observability that actually works.
Your observability spend has never been higher. Your recovery times have never been worse.
Reality check: that is not a tooling problem. It is a leadership problem. Metrics & Mayhem is where that gap gets closed.
The problem isn't your tooling.
📕 Metrics & Mayhem: A CTO's Guide to Observability That Actually Works. Kindle is live now; paperback and hardback launched on 1 June.
Eleven chapters, written for the CTO who has bought the platforms, run the training, and still can't get a straight answer when the system slows. You'll see what GitHub, Fastly and Atlassian did differently, and a phased plan you can start on Monday.
Or get the free chapter first →Signal Drop, the podcast
Five to seven minute audio notes from the front line of IT Ops. One idea, one habit, no theatre. Not interviews. Not news.
Seventeen episodes in, with Deep Dives when a topic earns the longer cut.
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Allan Mann
I've spent my career in IT operations leadership, the part of the org that gets paged when the abstraction leaks. Metrics & Mayhem is where I write down what actually works, what quietly doesn't, and what I got wrong the first time.
Comfortable is a warning light. This is the work of staying useful when it stops being comfortable.
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Pick the one that fits the week you're having. Pager won't stop? Start with the free chapter. Commute to fill? Start with an episode. The next signal is already being written.