It’s summer, and that means ecommerce businesses are once again gearing up for the peak selling periods of back-to-school and the holidays. As in years past, they are making sure their infrastructure is ready to cater to temporary spikes in demand by adding the proper computing resources.
But there’s another key principle that needs focusing on, which is quickly gaining in significance — and that is observability, or an organization’s ability to analyze, manage and make sense of the huge volumes of data (logs, metrics and traces) being generated in order to anticipate and uncover behavioral issues across a distributed system.
