Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Mastering Kubernetes Observability: Boost Performance, Security, and Stability With Tracestore, OPA, Flagger, and Custom Metrics

This guide walks you through using Tracestore, OPA, Flagger, and custom metrics to make Kubernetes more observable, with better tracing, policy control, and performance.

June 16, 2025

by Prabhu Chinnasamy

· 2,770 Views · 53 Likes

Building Generative AI Services: An Introductory and Practical Guide

Amazon Bedrock simplifies AI app development with serverless APIs, offering Q&A, summarization, and image generation using top models like Claude and Stability AI.

June 11, 2025

by Srinivas Chippagiri

CORE

· 18,376 Views · 13 Likes

Exploring Reactive and Proactive Observability in the Modern Monitoring Landscape

Embracing the shift in landscape from traditional monitoring systems to automated anomaly detection, pattern recognition, and root cause analysis.

June 10, 2025

by Abeetha Bala

· 1,997 Views · 1 Like

Secure Your Oracle Database Passwords in AWS RDS With a Password Verification Function

Enforce strong password policies for Oracle databases on AWS RDS using built-in or custom verification functions via the rdsadmin package.

June 10, 2025

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 2,158 Views · 3 Likes

From Code to Customer: Building Fault-Tolerant Microservices With Observability in Mind

Learn how to build resilient Kubernetes microservices with fault tolerance, SRE practices, and observability from code to customer.

June 9, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 3,011 Views · 4 Likes

Secure IaC With a Shift-Left Approach

Shift-Left secure Infrastructure as Code helps catch issues early, automate compliance, and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.

June 6, 2025

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 2,879 Views · 4 Likes

Finding Needles in Digital Haystacks: The Distributed Tracing Revolution

Use distributed tracing—the key third pillar of observability—to track requests across microservices and turn debugging from guesswork into precise insights.

June 6, 2025

by Rishab Jolly

· 2,126 Views · 3 Likes

OTel Me Why: The Case for OpenTelemetry Beyond the Shine

Someone asked me why I was so excited about OpenTelemetry. The reasons have more to do with it's innovation and utility than it's novelty.

June 4, 2025

by Leon Adato

· 1,068 Views · 3 Likes

Managing Encrypted Aurora DAS Over Kinesis With AWS SDK

Amazon Aurora DAS streams encrypted activity data via Kinesis for secure monitoring. This guide shows how to decrypt it using the AWS Encryption SDK.

June 3, 2025

by Shubham Kaushik

· 1,857 Views · 2 Likes

Improving Cloud Data Warehouse Performance: Overcoming Bottlenecks With AWS and Third-Party Tools

Cloud data warehousing performance can be optimized with AWS tools and third-party solutions like Matillion, Fivetran, and Looker.

June 3, 2025

by Dilip Kumar Rachamalla

· 3,037 Views · 1 Like

It Costs That Much Because Observability Takes Hours

People complain that vendors are charging money for services, which seems like a weird thing to do, since nobody wants to build it themselves, either.

June 3, 2025

by Leon Adato

· 1,527 Views · 1 Like

The Truth About AI and Job Loss

AI isn't just another technological shift; it's a race against time where it requires faster learning and adaptation than any previous technological transition.

June 2, 2025

by Niruta Talwekar

· 4,625 Views · 8 Likes

Observability Expenses: When ‘Pennies on the Dollar’ Add Up Quickly

At first blush, the cost of collecting, sending, and storing observability data seems like a pennies on the dollar proposition. But in truth, the costs can add up fast.

June 2, 2025

by Leon Adato

· 2,052 Views · 1 Like

Scaling Azure Microservices for Holiday Peak Traffic Using Automated CI/CD Pipelines and Cost Optimization

Automate Azure microservice scaling with CI/CD, AKS, and IaC for cost-effective, error-free holiday peak traffic handling.

May 30, 2025

by Prabhu Chinnasamy

· 5,712 Views · 52 Likes

When Airflow Tasks Get Stuck in Queued: A Real-World Debugging Story

Fixed Airflow 2.2.2 tasks stuck in "queued" state by backporting a patch from v2.6.0, optimizing scheduler config, and deploying temporary workarounds.

May 29, 2025

by Gurmeet Saran

· 7,334 Views · 4 Likes

Monoliths, REST, and Spring Boot Sidecars: A Real Modernization Playbook

Modernization isn’t a rewrite, it’s a dance. Wrap REST around SOAP, sneak in AWS, and layer smartly. Change only what matters. Legacy can live modern.

May 29, 2025

by Chandra Sekhar Kondaveeti

· 6,061 Views · 2 Likes

What’s Got Me Interested in OpenTelemetry—And Pursuing Certification

OpenTelemetry is one of the most exciting new things to hit the monitoring and observability space in a while. Which is why I'm pursuing a certification in it now.

May 29, 2025

by Leon Adato

· 3,150 Views

Comparing Managed Postgres Options on The Azure Marketplace

Azure offers several managed Postgres services designed for a variety of use cases. In this article, we review the key differences among them.

May 28, 2025

by Carlota Soto

· 4,523 Views · 2 Likes

How to Use AWS Aurora Database for a Retail Point of Sale (POS) Transaction System

Using Aurora, AWS's managed, highly scalable relational database, for a POS transaction system ensures efficient scaling to handle high transaction volumes.

May 28, 2025

by Spurthi Jambula

· 4,300 Views · 2 Likes

Optimizing Serverless Computing with AWS Lambda Layers and CloudFormation

Learn how AWS Lambda Layers and CloudFormation simplify serverless computing by managing dependencies and automating infrastructure provisioning.

May 27, 2025

by Srinivas Chippagiri

CORE

· 17,334 Views · 3 Likes

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