Testing In Production and Observability

Are you are looking to ship new code to your users faster, and want to know how to manage the resulting testing in Production?

I was hit with the same challenge a few years ago, where I need to shift from an 'automate, inspect and ship' process to a continual release method that required a level of testing in Production.

Test in Production: setting expectations on your services.

Instrumenting Application Behaviours with Monitoring tooling

Testing collaborating microservices in Production

Adding observability and cross-application monitoring to microservices

Set up and maintain Exceptional Alerts

Testing in Production is your safety net. Your monitoring should be exceptional. 

Being Rugged: How not to fail when things break.

A real-life tale of how Testing in Production has your back if you build safe enough failure states