Author: William David Louth

Circuits, not Pipelines!

The first official release of the Substrates API is nearing completion. With that, it is time to explore one of the toolkit's most significant differences compared to other approaches, such as OpenTelemetry.

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Humainary vs OpenTelemetry – Spatial

For Humainary, the goal is to encourage as much as possible the analytical processing of observations at the source of event emittance and in the moment of the situation. To propagate assessments, not data.

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Measurement and Control 2022

Since the very beginning of the hype of Observability, we have contended that the link with Controllability must be maintained for there ever to be a return on investment (ROI) that matches the extravagant claims from vendors pushing a message of more-is-better.

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Humane Factors in Observability – Part 1

This two-part series will discuss critical factors that weighed heavily in our rethinking of Observability and how they manifest in our toolkit under the headings: conceptualization, communication, coordination, collaboration, and cognition.

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A Modern Observability Library Toolkit

The Humainary project aims to bring much-needed sensibility, streamlining, simplicity, and sophistication back to an area that seems to fight forcefully not to move past yesteryear technologies like logging and tracing.

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