Research Spotlight - Day 2 Operate with Resilience
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This video is a detailed session from the AppDev Done Right Summit focusing on critical operations that sustain modern applications, specifically observability, incident management, and continuous improvement. Hosted by Paul Nashwati, principal analyst, with guest Bob La Liberte, the session explores how these practices enable early issue detection, swift response, and ongoing operational reliability and performance enhancement.
Key insights include:
- The widespread use of multiple observability tools by organizations (6 to 15 on average) and the challenges it presents.
- The importance of full-stack observability for real-time environment insights and proactive problem prevention.
- Observability’s role in today’s dynamic, distributed application environments extending beyond traditional data centers to multi-cloud and edge locations.
- Incident management’s critical value in minimizing downtime costs, with automated incident response reducing outage times significantly.
- The emerging influence of AI in incident management to handle vast data amounts and enable predictive, proactive operations.
- Continuous improvement practices, including post-incident reviews and feedback loops, reduce repeat incidents and improve deployment quality.
- The need for collaboration across DevOps, SREs, and platform engineering teams and the integration of AI for holistic operational insights.
The session concludes with encouragement to embrace these practices for higher operational excellence, reliability, performance, and innovation in software development lifecycle management.