In a feature article, Alex Williams, founder and editor of The New Stack, breaks down why CRE and preq are game changers for reliability teams.

Excerpts:

"Despite advancements in observability, the application monitoring process hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Data gets stored in new places and labeled in different ways, but the task of figuring out what’s happening, why it’s happening, and if it matters still rests on an engineer’s shoulders. "

"CREs give engineers a way to discuss recurring problems so they can approach issues without reinventing the wheel, so to speak, or even trying to solve problems in isolation. The upside comes in recognizing failure modes before they escalate, or seeing how issues correlate across services."

"So why does this matter? AI is a good starter.

• AI is accelerating the pace of software development. Technical debt and bugs grow faster, dampening productivity gains.
• 80% + of application code is 3rd-party code. Engineering teams don’t have deep internal expertise across all critical dependencies.
• Institutional knowledge and expertise are being lost as teams are forced to downsize.
• When AI-driven applications fail, the cost of idle compute is high.
• Engineering leaders are increasingly under pressure to reduce undifferentiated work."

Be sure to check out the full article here: https://thenewstack.io/prequel-software-errors-be-gone/