Tag: Observability for Backend Engineers

All the articles with the tag "Observability for Backend Engineers".

• Metrics: Because 'It Feels Slow' Isn't an SLO: Practical Metrics for Backend Engineers

  5 May, 2026

  RED and USE methods, picking metrics that actually matter, custom metrics in .NET with System.Diagnostics.Metrics and OpenTelemetry, and the art of not measuring everything just because you can

• Your Logs Are Lying to You: Practical Structured Logging for Backend Engineers

  29 Apr, 2026

  Structured logging done right for backend engineers - what to log, what to stop logging, and why your current logs are probably making incidents harder, not easier