Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Tail Sampling: The Future of Intelligent Observability in Distributed Systems

Discover how tail sampling in OpenTelemetry enhances observability, reduces costs, and captures critical traces for faster detection and smarter system monitoring.

August 5, 2025

by Rishab Jolly

· 3,289 Views · 1 Like

Learn to use AWS SNS (Amazon Simple Notification Service) messaging service to publish a message to an email address as a subscriber using Spring Boot.

August 5, 2025

by Milan Karajovic

· 3,025 Views · 4 Likes

Building a Simple AIOps Monitoring Dashboard With Prometheus and Grafana

Learn to build a simple AIOps dashboard using Prometheus, Grafana, and ML-based anomaly detection to monitor metrics, set alerts, and prevent failures.

August 5, 2025

by Balajee Asish Brahmandam

· 4,249 Views · 1 Like

Deep Observability in Node.js Using OpenTelemetry and Pino

Enhance total observability within a distributed microservice architecture using modern tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Pino logger.

August 4, 2025

by Lakshmi Narayana Rasalay

· 4,510 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond 200 OK: Full-Stack Observability for Developers

200 OK isn’t success; we should own the complete user journey from click to memory with traceable, observable, full-stack systems.

August 4, 2025

by Mohit Menghnani

CORE

· 2,331 Views · 3 Likes

AI-Powered AWS CloudTrail Analysis: Using Strands Agent and Amazon Bedrock for Intelligent AWS Access Pattern Detection

In this post, I came up with a solution that addresses the critical challenge of efficiently analyzing AWS CloudTrail logs to identify security threats.

August 1, 2025

by Anil Malakar

· 2,969 Views · 2 Likes

Choosing Between GCP Workflows, AWS Step Functions, and Temporal for Stateful Workflow Orchestration

GCP Workflows vs AWS Step Functions vs Temporal — a vendor-neutral look at usability, dev experience, pros/cons, and best-fit use cases.

July 31, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 6,356 Views

AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Right Cloud Provider

The three most well-known cloud providers by highlighting their unique strengths, diverse services, and various pricing plans, enabling you to make informed decisions.

July 28, 2025

by Sairamakrishna BuchiReddy Karri

· 2,327 Views

Building Intelligent Applications Using Generative AI and Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Embed GenAI into PostgreSQL using Azure extensions for semantic search, predictions, and smart applications — directly within your data layer.

July 28, 2025

by Aravind Nuthalapati

CORE

· 11,114 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying Containers on Azure Container Apps

In this article, we’ll explore Azure Container Apps and walk through example ARM templates to demonstrate how to deploy them within an Azure environment.

July 24, 2025

by Siri Varma Vegiraju

CORE

· 3,055 Views

Configuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) With Amazon Q CLI

In this post I share how MCP Servers can help provide better context with Amazon Q CLI, a next generation AI Coding Assistant

July 23, 2025

by Ricardo Sueiras

· 5,174 Views · 1 Like

The Golden Signals of Monitoring

Learn how Google’s Golden Signals — latency, traffic, errors, and saturation — help monitor service health and detect issues before they escalate.

July 23, 2025

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 2,524 Views · 4 Likes

Designing Retry-Resilient Fare Pipelines With Idempotent Event Handling

Design retry-safe fare pipelines with idempotent event handling to ensure consistency across failures, retries, and duplications.

July 23, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 3,114 Views · 2 Likes

Implementing Least Privilege in AWS IAM: Principles, Practices, and Automation

Applying least privilege in AWS IAM helps reduce risk, improve compliance, and secure environments by granting only necessary permissions to users and services.

July 22, 2025

by Ishwar Bansal

· 3,791 Views · 2 Likes

Debugging Distributed Flight Search: What Logs Alone Won’t Tell You

Logs aren’t enough. Learn how tracing, metrics, and correlation IDs help debug fare mismatches in distributed flight search systems.

July 22, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 2,019 Views · 3 Likes

How to Create Loki Alerts via PrometheusRule Resource

Enable PrometheusRule alerts for Loki logs with Grafana Alloy — even with Helm. Get unified, declarative alerting for logs and metrics in Kubernetes.

July 22, 2025

by Alexander Sharov

· 3,563 Views · 1 Like

How to Expose IBM FS Cloud Container App to Public

This white paper provides a solution faced by the IBM Cloud Financial Services Cloud users when exposing application to public network.

July 18, 2025

by Pari Biswas

· 3,632 Views · 1 Like

How We Built a Smarter University Chatbot Using LLaMA2, AWS SageMaker, and RAG

We built a multilingual university chatbot using LLaMA2, SageMaker, LangChain, and Milvus with RAG for real-time answers scalable to domains like healthcare and HR.

July 18, 2025

by Kishore Thota

· 4,059 Views · 1 Like

Implementing Event-Driven Systems With AWS Lambda and DynamoDB Streams

Learn how to build a real-time, event-driven system using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB Streams to process data changes automatically without polling or extra infra.

July 18, 2025

by Akash Verma

· 3,506 Views · 2 Likes

Rapid AWS Prototyping With LocalStack: A Developer’s Guide to Building AWS PoCs Locally

This article shows how to use LocalStack to build and test AWS-based Proof of Concepts (PoCs) entirely on your local machine.

July 17, 2025

by Akash Verma

· 4,395 Views · 1 Like

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