AMA: New Engineering Realities, New Questions with the Observability Engineering Authors

July 29, 2026 | 10:00am PT / 1pm ET

A new edition for a new era of software

The first edition of Observability Engineering was published in 2022, before agentic AI transformed how software is built. Since then, the landscape has changed dramatically, and the second edition, published in June 2026, explores the new realities of building and operating modern software.

Hear from the authors

Join authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker for a live conversation that goes beyond the pages. Hear the thinking behind the book, learn what's changed since the first edition, and ask your questions directly to the authors. Whether you're already reading the book or just getting started, you'll gain deeper context and practical insights that you won't find on the page.

Together they'll cover:

• What four new chapters on LLMs, AI agents, and frontend observability get into and why they were necessary
• Why most AI mandates and initiatives will live or die on the strength of their observability, and how staff+ engineers and directors+ should approach the era of AI transformations
• What a hard look at the first edition revealed—including what it got right and what needed to evolve

As always, you’ll get to ask your hardest observability questions in a live AMA. Do your worst!