The Origins, Purpose, and Practice of Data Observability

Data observability is an emerging technology that solves an age-old problem: understanding the state of data systems to increase awareness and trust. This piece is adapted from talks by the author at Open Data Science Conference 2022 and DataOps Unleashed 2022.

Data has been used for millennia to represent the real world. While the technologies around data have changed, the problems have not. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and author.

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