I-shaped. T-shaped. Π-shaped. Tree-shaped. Cute on paper. Useless when your stack is on fire. Observability doesn’t need specialists or generalists. It needs engineers who can tie systems together, learn fast, and make sense of chaos. At NoBS, we call them Arcane Engineers—and yes, Yog-Sothoth is involved.
This blog explains why.

DASH 2025 certainly did not disappoint. Datadog dropped a pile of announcements right out of the gate. We figured we’d break out a few of our personal favorites for you.

Seems like there's a conference for everything, to the point where if you tried to attend all of them you would never get any work done. As an engineer, our time is valuable, and if we’re not gaining value in doing something then we shouldn’t be doing it.

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