https://blog.dev.simpleenough.net/tags/observability/Recent content in Observability on Simple Enough BlogHugoenTue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://blog.dev.simpleenough.net/blog/mttr/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://blog.dev.simpleenough.net/blog/mttr/<p>It&rsquo;s three in the morning, an alert fires, and the only question that matters isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;why did it break?&rdquo; but &ldquo;how long until it&rsquo;s fixed?&rdquo;. Trying to prevent every outage is an illusion: complex systems always end up failing. The real measure of a team&rsquo;s maturity isn&rsquo;t its ability to never fail, but its ability to <strong>recover fast</strong>. That&rsquo;s what MTTR measures — provided you know how to read it.</p>https://blog.dev.simpleenough.net/blog/wave/Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://blog.dev.simpleenough.net/blog/wave/<p>We all dream of a stable, predictable, “calm” system. And yet, the reality of a modern platform is a living sea: deployments, external dependencies, cloud quotas, flaky networks, traffic spikes, human error—and sometimes… just “something” that should never have happened.</p> <p>Chaos engineering is often presented as a spectacular discipline—“we cut an AWS zone,” “we kill a cluster,” “we take Kafka down.” In real life (and especially in small teams), that’s neither necessary nor desirable at the beginning.</p>