DeveloperWeek Europe 2023

Christine Yen, Honeycomb, CEO/Co-founder

Everyone has been talking about observability lately—but how is it different from the tooling we've had for decades, and (more importantly) how will it make life better for developers?

Writing tests alongside code has been an invaluable technique for ensuring that our code does what it's supposed to—and that we get fast feedback when it doesn't. Observability can serve the same purpose for software engineers, only even more powerfully: instead of relying on predefined test cases, we can investigate issues surfaced by the most merciless testers ever: actual users.

In this talk, we'll discuss how observability isn't just for DecvOps or SRE folks—and how it can instead supercharge what developers do every day.