SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Elise Burke, Datadog, Inc.


As engineers we design distributed architectures, define project scopes, and ensure that we have a single "source of truth". But what, exactly, do we mean by the phrase? Do we really have only one source of truth - and for that matter, how do we decide what it is?

We'll look at some well-known ambiguities in system design and data modeling and then consider more philosophical questions about truth, the sources of truth we accept, and why this ambiguity matters.


https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/burke