Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

A Hands-On Guide to Enable Amazon GuardDuty on AWS Account

This hands-on guide will help you enable Amazon GuardDuty via the AWS Console in order to monitor and detect security threats in your AWS environment.

January 9, 2025

by Sai Sandeep Ogety

CORE

· 4,869 Views · 13 Likes

AWS Cloud Security: Key Components, Common Vulnerabilities, and Best Practices

Organizations can achieve a robust security posture in AWS by understanding key AWS security components, mitigating vulnerabilities, and adhering to best practices.

January 8, 2025

by John Akkarakaran Jose

· 6,967 Views · 3 Likes

Automating AWS Infrastructure Testing With Terratest

Terratest validates Terraform-based AWS resources, running checks and tearing them down afterward to catch issues early and prevent production misconfigurations.

January 8, 2025

by Sai Sandeep Ogety

CORE

· 6,546 Views · 15 Likes

When (Tech Service) Relationships Don’t Work Out

When an existing implementation no longer aligns with business objectives, existing cloud resources can be exposed via the concept of VPC Peering.

January 8, 2025

by John Vester

CORE

· 47,495 Views · 3 Likes

Using Event-Driven Ansible to Monitor Your Web Application

Learn how to use a URL check module to trigger a node restart playbook that will automatically start the Nginx server when a particular URL becomes unreachable.

January 8, 2025

by Binoj Melath Nalinakshan Nair

CORE

· 7,618 Views · 12 Likes

O11y Guide: Finding Observability and DevEx Tranquility With Platform Engineering

This guide explores how to avoid drowning in the sea of monitoring data to instead understand how to provide insights while using only what is needed.

January 7, 2025

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 3,650 Views · 6 Likes

Testing Is a Cross-Cutting Concern; So Are Databases

It’s essential to test all database changes cohesively throughout the pipeline. Let’s explore how this can be achieved with a modern approach.

January 7, 2025

by Adam Furmanek

CORE

· 4,178 Views · 3 Likes

Kubernetes in the Cloud: A Guide to Observability

Kubernetes Observability: Use metrics, logs, and traces to understand your system, solve problems faster, and improve performance.

January 3, 2025

by Samarth Shah

· 7,595 Views · 3 Likes

Optimizing Performance in Azure Cosmos DB: Best Practices and Tips

Optimize performance, minimize costs, and ensure scalability in Azure Cosmos DB with practices like selecting the right partition key and tuning queries.

January 2, 2025

by Muhammad Imran Ansari

· 12,706 Views

Stop Being Afraid of Databases

Ensuring database reliability can be difficult. Our goal is to speed up development and minimize rollbacks. Achieving efficient processes requires database observability.

January 2, 2025

by Adam Furmanek

CORE

· 5,413 Views · 3 Likes

Iceberg Catalogs: A Guide for Data Engineers

Learn about Apache Iceberg catalogs, their types, configurations, and the best-fit solutions for managing metadata and large datasets in different environments.

December 31, 2024

by Naresh Dulam

· 6,842 Views · 2 Likes

Setting Up a ScyllaDB Cluster on AWS Using Terraform

This article will teach you how to set up, deploy, manage, and scale ScyllaDB clusters on AWS using Terraform with this comprehensive step-by-step guide.

December 30, 2024

by Oleg Lipin

· 10,246 Views · 5 Likes

Kubernetes Ephemeral Containers: Enhancing Security and Streamlining Troubleshooting in Production Clusters

Ephemeral containers in Kubernetes offer secure, short-lived debugging without disturbing primary workloads, then vanish — reducing risk and overhead.

December 30, 2024

by Sai Sandeep Ogety

CORE

· 11,380 Views · 14 Likes

AWS Performance Tuning: Why EC2 Autoscaling Isn’t a Silver Bullet

Deep dive into why Autoscaling isn’t a silver bullet and how engineers can augment it for better performance and cost efficiency.

December 25, 2024

by John Akkarakaran Jose

· 15,891 Views · 6 Likes

Ulyp: Recording Java Execution Flow for Faster Debugging

The article introduces Ulyp, an agent that can record the Java/Kotlin app execution flow. The tool can help understand code faster and debug more efficiently.

December 25, 2024

by Andrey Cheboksarov

· 7,854 Views · 2 Likes

How OpenAI’s Downtime Incident Teaches Us to Build More Resilient Systems

OpenAI's downtime incident reveals critical lessons in building resilient systems, improving testing, and preventing future failures in distributed environments.

December 25, 2024

by Vasanthi Govindaraj

· 9,687 Views · 2 Likes