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Mastering Observability: Top Strategies for Tech Leaders | by Allan Mann
Two observability acquisitions in six days. Here is what that means for who owns your telemetry.
Aug 21, 2026
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3 min read
The demo shows you the tower. It never shows you the year underground.
Aug 9, 2026
2 min read
Observability you can act on, whether you build it or lead it, plus the few signals worth your time.
Aug 2, 2026
A governance model for agent actions that fits in your head: decide by blast radius, not confidence.
Jul 26, 2026
The prevention paradox, and the one slide that wins the renewal.
Jul 19, 2026
Not a chatbot and not a script. An AI system that is given a goal and takes the actions to reach it.
Jul 14, 2026
Good tools answer the question for you, until the one they can't. Keep your curiosity muscle warm on purpose.
Jul 12, 2026
The open standard that lets AI agents use your tools and data. What MCP is, why it exists, and its honest limits.
Jul 9, 2026
A single map of the tools, and the honest catch on every piece.
Jul 1, 2026
1 min read
The open-source standard for metrics, in plain English, and where it stops.
The dashboard layer that ties your observability together, and what it is not.
Grafana's logs backend, in plain English, and the trade-off at its heart.
The tracing backend behind your traces, in plain English, and where OpenTelemetry fits.
Operational judgement you can act on, whether you build it or lead it, plus the few signals worth your time. Starting with the deal that merged security and observability.
One style won't survive pressure. Your job is choosing the right mode at the right moment.
Jun 30, 2026
The kernel technology behind zero-code observability, in plain English, and where it stops short.
Jun 26, 2026
The vendor-neutral standard for telemetry, in plain English, and what it does not do for you.
How you follow one request across many services, in plain English, and where it falls short.
Zero-code observability with eBPF and OpenTelemetry, and the one question to ask before you bet your estate on it.
4 min read
Heroism is the polite word for a system that wasn't positioned. Here's the merge-time habit that fixes it.
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 1, 2026
Reliability numbers never climb in a straight line. One bad month is not a failed strategy.
May 25, 2026
A short note on standards, drift, and why the line you refuse to cross is often where real leadership begins.
May 18, 2026
Feb 23, 2026
Blameless doesn’t mean ownerless. Ownership is how incidents stop dragging.
Feb 16, 2026
