Kent Quirk

Nov 22, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Rox Williams |Jessica Kerr |Kent Quirk

Many businesses rely on cloud infrastructure to power their software solutions. The cloud today makes it easier than ever to create services and components, increasingly the complexity of software. With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes fit together.

Nov 19, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Rox Williams |Jessica Kerr |Kent Quirk

We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all of these details swimming about, I’m afraid we’re already starting to lose sight of what matters. The distinction between observability 1.0 and observability 2.0 is not a laundry list, it’s not marketing speak, and it’s not that complicated or hard to understand.

Jan 11, 2024 | infoq.com | Kent Quirk

Transcript Quirk: I'm here to talk about architecture reliability, observability as a whole. I'd like to just start you off by thinking about thinking. If you're designing something, if you're working on something, if you're building something, would you rather think about the telephone with its fairly obvious connection between a speaker and a microphone? This is a picture from Ericsson in Sweden, back in the 1890s of a telephone switch.