Observability is a design decision, not an afterthought. From the platform team to API consumers to AI agents, knowing what is happening across your API — and building that in from the start — is what gives you confidence when things go wrong in production.

A practical guide to designing multi-region API deployments - covering data consistency, auth dependencies, traffic routing, and failure modes, with real-world lessons from IBM API Connect SaaS.

How my SRE experience with sizing, observability and SLOs shapes the way I approach API architecture - planning for reality, not hopes.