Bootstrapping Application & Op Development with Devcontainers & Grafana LGTM Stack

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Shows a reproducible local dev loop that boots an app plus observability stack using Devcontainers + Docker Compose, Grafana (Loki, Tempo, Prometheus/Mimir) and a Go hot-reload tool (Air). The demo builds a small API, spins Grafana/Prometheus/Loki, ships pre-baked dashboards and data sources with the repo, and runs successfully locally. Outcome: new hires go from days to “pull and devcontainer up” productivity, and alerts/dashboards travel with CI instead of arriving after production.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:58Shipping applications stages
3. 7:11Observability in development
4. 12:08Local observability challenges
5. 16:22LGTM observability stack
6. 19:32Dev containers for setup
7. 25:11Fast dev loop with hot reload
8. 27:17Live dev environment demo
9. 33:59Instant onboarding
10. 34:20Closing

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