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Oncall Burnout Is a Design Failure
Paging fatigue isn't a staffing problem. It's a design problem. Systems that generate noise do so because they weren't designed for operability.
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Observability Is Broken for AI Systems
Traces, metrics, and logs were designed for deterministic systems. When an agent makes 40 tool calls across three services to complete a task, your existing observability stack tells you almost nothing useful.
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Observability Without Datadog: A $50/Month Stack That Works
Datadog at series A is fine. Datadog at seed is malpractice. Here's a stack that gets you 80% of the value for 1% of the cost.