Slides from my talk at the LXJS 2012 on Observability. I explore what observability means to realtime software, why we should care, and how to start making realtime Node.js apps more observable. I present some tools and approaches that I've found useful running production realtime software.

http://dshaw.github.com/2012-09-lxjs

You can view the slides by simply opening index.html in your browser or by running:

$ npm install
$ npm start

...and going to http://localhost:8888

$ npm doc dshaw-talk-2012-09-lxjs

Will take you here.

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