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Piyush Verma
November 16, 2019
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Transcript
Observability & Control Theory
Question
Question
Question
Monitoring!! Answer
• You monitor what you know • You react after
it has failed. • What about unknown-unknowns? • Doesn’t avoid failures. • Tells something broke and now it isn’t. • Always a comparative operator. Question: What is Monitoring?
• Systems are Distributed. • What about? ◦ Accuracy ◦
Latency ◦ Correctness ◦ Consistency • It’s till or from Now. What are we missing?
Monitoring Timeline Late 2000s • SOA Early 2010 • Microservices
1990s • Servers 2000s • Monolith Now Lambda
The REAL question If a tree falls in a forest
and nobody heard it, did it make a sound?
The REAL answer All falling trees yield Logs.
Software, by default, is opaque. To debug & control a
running system, you need observation pre-built.
Observability
Need - Debugging - Pattern Detection
None
Unlike monitoring, observability is not failure-centric. If your job allows,
you can use it to understand system performance, just-like-that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stability
Control Theory
Control Theory
Example
TCP Flow Control
TCP Flow Control
TCP Congestion Control
TCP Congestion Control
Practical Applications
• Constrained Optimization Problems • Constraint Scaling Problems Practical Applications
Auto-Scaling
Cache
Gateway
Load-Balancer
Progressive Streaming
Software, by default, is opaque. To debug & control a
running system, you need observation pre-built.
Thank You - Piyush Verma