Martin Fowler

Availability is the most important feature

— Mike Fisher, former CTO of Etsy

“I get knocked down, but I get up again…”

— Tubthumping, Chumbawumba

Every organization pays attention to resilience. The big question is when.

Startups tend to only address resilience when their systems are already down, often taking a very reactive approach. For a scaleup, excessive system downtime represents a significant bottleneck to the organization, both from the effort expended on restoring function and also from the impact of customer dissatisfaction.

To move past this, resilience needs to be built into the business objectives, which will influence the architecture, design, product management, and even governance of business systems. In this article, we’ll explore the Resilience and Observability Bottleneck: how you can recognize it coming, how you might realize it has already arrived, and what you can do to survive the bottleneck.

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