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Observability Is Shifting Left, Following Security and Ops

This is the second in a three-part series on “shift left observability.” A major trend sweeping our industry is to make common practices more “developer-friendly,” mostly by trying to meet developers where they are and integrating those practices into existing developer tools.

Shifting Left Security — In the world of application security, https://snyk.io/ has drastically changed the way it approaches supply chain security by continuously analyzing, detecting and offering automatic remediations for various third-party library vulnerabilities.

Existing https://lightrun.com/observability/observability-vs-monitoring/ tools focus mainly on operators, not developers, and with only a fraction of the https://www.developernation.net/developer-reports/dn21 practicing observability on a day-to-day basis, that’s becoming a real issue.

In the next article, we’re going to cover how to shift left observability in practice, and specifically how to apply it across the entire SDLC.