List of references from "Observability is for User Happiness," performance.now() 2019 (Amsterdam), and "Observability for Web Performance," #perfmatters 2020

refs.md

slides

1. Talk about birds for five minutes

• Hawks vs. Falcons
• Observability vs. Metrics (Cindy Sridharan)

2. Data models

• Events vs. Structured Logs (Ben Hartshorne, Honeycomb.io)
• More about what to add to events: 1 2 3
• A good description of the Three Pillars (Cindy Sridharan)
• Response to the Three Pillars (Ben Sigelman)
• Deep dive on Superhuman's perf metrics. Includes some great detail about tracking rendering performance. (Conrad Irwin)

3. SLOs vs. performance budgets

• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as decribed in the SRE Book
• Developing Effective Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives
• A post about building SLO support (Danyel Fisher, Honeycomb.io)
• Start Performance Budgeting (Addy Osmani)
• Webpack performance budgets
• SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, oh my! (video with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo)

4. Observability for perf optimization

• some notes on frontend instrumentation (Honeycomb.io)
• tracing instrumentation in the browser (me)
• client-side tracing demo app (Ryan Lynch)
• Long Tasks API

5. Observability for UX design

• We're all product engineers now — wait what? more about product engineering (Intercom blog)