Transparency
Explore the concept of transparency in distributed systems to understand how revealing system behavior aids operators, developers, and business sponsors. Learn how transparency enables effective monitoring, debugging, and decision-making, ensuring systems mature and remain reliable in real-world production environments.
Transparency in shipboard engines
Shipboard engineers can tell when something is about to go wrong by the sound of the giant diesel engines. They’ve learned, by living with their engines, to recognize normal, nominal, and abnormal. They are constantly surrounded by the sounds and rhythms of their environment. When something is wrong, the engineers’ knowledge of the linkages within the engines can lead them ...