The document discusses how to build monitoring-driven development (MDD) using metrics. It recommends assigning metrics owners to monitor key metrics like latency, throughput, failures and system resources. Metrics are used to make development and business decisions by highlighting performance issues and how the application and its usage evolves over time. The goal is to give developers freedom and insight while speeding up decision making through easy visualization of metrics for both technical and business stakeholders. This helps improve communication, catch problems early and build applications that are high performing and meet requirements.