Matt Stratton, Transformation Specialist at Red Hat's NAPS Transformation Office, discusses his career in DevOps, developer advocacy and relations, and shares his thoughts on observability. He emphasizes that monitoring matters, discoverability, resilience engineering, and systems thinking are crucial aspects of observability. Matt also stresses the importance of collaboration between developers, Ops teams, and business leaders to achieve effective DevOps practices. He highlights the need for understanding service level objectives, resource management, and logging to improve observability. Matt predicts that platforms and commoditization will become more prevalent in the industry, leading to a greater focus on SRE practices, services thinking, and human creativity in solving complex problems.