Platform engineering is eating the world. That will be the defining theme of our industry over the coming years. Whether you call that “shifting down” like Google or just the inevitable progression of platform engineering, it’s clear that platforms will grow to absorb more and more domains.

Does that mean domains like security and observability become obsolete? Hell no. They become more important than ever, and more important to YOU than ever.

That is why yesterday we launched a free course focused on Observability for platform engineers with Dash0. It covers:

• Foundations: The origins of observability, how it differs from monitoring, and why it is essential for understanding not just what is happening but why.
• Telemetry and standards: Covers the different telemetry signals (logs, metrics, traces, profiles, RUM), the importance of context and correlation, and the role of OpenTelemetry and semantic conventions in ensuring consistency, interoperability. Insights you can actually action on
• What you need to do: How platform engineers can treat observability as a product feature, and “shift it down” into the platform providing auto-instrumentation, default dashboards, and correlation while fighting through challenges like inconsistency, vendor lock-in, tool fragmentation through OSS observability stacks etc etc.

As platforms expand to integrate more and more domains, it’s crucial that platform engineers understand what this entails and how to thrive in this. 

You don’t need to be an observability expert, but you need to understand what it is, and how to get the absolute most out of it in your platform for your platform's customers.