https://carney.wiki/tags/observability/Recent content in Observability on carney.wikiHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://carney.wiki/blog/from-tool-sprawl-to-an-operational-data-platform/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://carney.wiki/blog/from-tool-sprawl-to-an-operational-data-platform/The modern data stack is incredible. It is also exhausting. Cloud elasticity, open table formats, modular tooling, and managed services let small teams do work that used to require a data center and a small army. That is the good news. The bad news is that the same modularity created tool sprawl, half-finished pipelines, unclear ownership, and incident channels that never sleep. Now AI is walking into that environment and asking for access.