# Observability — Sylvain Kalache

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/observability

My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about Observability.

## Selected work

- [Health Checks for Systems. What About Your Team?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/health-checks-for-systems-what-about-your-team.md) (2026-09-10; Conf42): Applying system-level observability to team health: using signals from the stack to detect unsustainable on-call rotations and overwork before they lead to burnout and resignations.
- [Maria Vechtomova — Co-founder at Cauchy](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/maria-vechtomova-co-founder-at-cauchy.md) (2026-05-14; Humans of Reliability): LLM observability — how monitoring principles from MLOps apply to large language model applications, the gaps that went overlooked for nine years, and best practices for observing AI systems.
- [AI Meets Reliability](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-meets-reliability.md) (2025-09-23; Rootly AI Labs): Panel exploring AI-driven automation and observability with leaders from NVIDIA, OpenAI, Baseten, Replit, and Weights & Biases on scaling operations and reducing MTTR.
- [Rootly Roundtable: From Weak Signals to Confident Fixes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rootly-roundtable-from-weak-signals-to-confident-fixes.md) (2025-06-18; Rootly): Invite-only roundtable on filtering alert noise, enriching alerts with automated ownership context, and streamlining bug validation workflows.
- [Justin Reock — Deputy CTO at DX](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/justin-reock-deputy-cto-at-dx.md) (2025-04-30; Humans of Reliability): Developer experience, engineering metrics, and what makes teams productive and reliable.
- [Adriana Villela — Principal DevRel at Dynatrace](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/adriana-villela-principal-devrel-at-dynatrace.md) (2025-02-27; Humans of Reliability): Observability culture, OpenTelemetry adoption, and the human side of monitoring and debugging.
- [Streamlined APM Integration in Cloud Native Buildpacks](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/streamlined-apm-integration-in-cloud-native-buildpacks.md) (2024-06-11; The New Stack): How to embed application performance monitoring directly into your buildpack pipeline without modifying application code.
- [On-Call-Health](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/on-call-health.md) (2024-06-01; GitHub): Detects early warning signs of on-call engineer burnout by pulling data from Rootly, PagerDuty, Linear, GitHub, and Slack.

[All work](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/index.md)