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Inside Observability-Driven Development

A discussion about how exactly observability empowers developers

Saeed Zarinfam
7 min readMar 20, 2024

Recently, I had a conversation about Observability-Driven Development with the ETEAM technical blog, and they published it as an interview. You can read that discussion in this article.

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The critical role of observability in building reliable software

While observability helps Ops teams understand what’s happening across cloud-native, distributed systems, developers are also beginning to reap the benefits.

Observability-driven development emerges as a way to shift observability practices from post-deployment to the earlier stages of testing and development. With this approach, developers use telemetry data to build more reliable software and overcome the challenge of coding an application without having full visibility into its behavior.

But how exactly does observability empower developers?

Let’s welcome Saeed and dive right in!

Q1. Initially the territory of Ops and SRE teams, observability is now becoming a focus for developers as well. Why do you think that is?

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Saeed Zarinfam
Saeed Zarinfam

Written by Saeed Zarinfam

✍️ I write about Software Development, including Java, Go, Spring, Containers, K8s, AI, Observability, and more ⋈

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