Ep. #83, Observability Isn't Just SRE on Steroids with Dan Ravenstone
Jessica Kerr, Austin Parker, and Ken Rimple are joined by Dan Ravenstone of Windscribe to unpack what an observability engineer actually does.
By: Ken Rimple
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On episode 83 of O11ycast, Jessica Kerr, Austin Parker, and Ken Rimple are joined by Dan Ravenstone of Windscribe. The conversation looks at the observability engineer role and why it reaches past DevOps and SRE work: the engineer speaks for the user, connects system performance to real customer experience, and builds alliances across product, support, and engineering. Dan also covers mobile observability, and why shared, precise terminology decides whether an observability practice succeeds.
Daniel Ravenstone is a Senior SRE at Windscribe with more than 25 years in observability and monitoring. He advocates for OpenTelemetry and helps teams adopt observability practices that improve system performance and reliability.
Show notes are available on Heavybit.