Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Reliability Is Security: Why SRE Teams Are Becoming the Frontline of Cloud Defense

In cloud systems, reliability and security are the same problem — security changes can cause outages, and attacks often appear as operational issues.

March 31, 2026

by Oreoluwa Omoike

· 3,744 Views · 1 Like

Azure Cosmos DB Playground: Learn and Experiment With Queries in Your Browser

Interactive, browser-based Azure Cosmos DB playground to learn, prototype, and test SQL queries instantly — no setup, installation, or cloud costs required.

March 30, 2026

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 1,223 Views

When Kubernetes Says "All Green" But Your System Is Already Failing

Learn about how standard cluster observability misses the failure signals that matter most during real incidents, outages, and postmortems.

March 26, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 3,463 Views

Mastering Serverless Architecture: Event-Driven Design with Azure Functions and Cosmos DB

A comprehensive guide to building serverless event-driven systems using Azure Functions and Cosmos DB, featuring real-world patterns.

March 25, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,892 Views

Building Fault-Tolerant Spring Boot Microservices With Kafka and AWS

Build fault-tolerant Spring Boot microservices with Kafka using retries, DLTs, idempotency, and AWS Lambda for scalable, resilient event processing.

March 19, 2026

by Mallikharjuna Manepalli

· 4,111 Views

Observability in AI Pipelines: Why “The System Is Up” Means Nothing

AI systems can be fully “up” yet behave unpredictably, expensively, or incorrectly. Observability must track job state, retries, token usage, and cost.

March 17, 2026

by Aditya Gupta

· 3,799 Views · 1 Like

Understanding Custom Authorization Mechanisms in Amazon API Gateway and AWS AppSync

This article compares the use of custom Lambda authorizers in AWS API Gateway and AWS AppSync, focusing on their respective approaches to API authorization.

March 13, 2026

by Leslie Daniel Raj

· 4,705 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond the Heartbeat: Monitoring Agentic Systems

Agentic monitoring shifts from uptime to decision health — tracking reasoning, performance, resources, and outcomes across dynamic workflows.

March 12, 2026

by VIVEK KATARYA

· 3,522 Views

AWS EventBridge as Your System's Nervous System: The Architecture Nobody Talks About

EventBridge handles our 4M daily events. When Stripe changed APIs, we spent $1,200 and 4 days instead of $180K and 6 weeks.

March 11, 2026

by Dinesh Elumalai

CORE

· 6,690 Views · 1 Like

Building a Unified API Documentation Portal with React, Redoc, and Automatic RAML-to-OpenAPI Conversion

Learn how to build a modern static API documentation portal that supports both OpenAPI 3.x and RAML 1.0 specifications with automatic conversion.

March 11, 2026

by Sreedhar Pamidiparthi

· 5,760 Views

Designing Production-Grade GenAI Data Pipelines on Snowflake: From Vector Ingestion to Observability

Learn to build production-ready GenAI pipelines on Snowflake with delta-aware ingestion, scalable retrieval, and observability for reliability and cost control.

March 10, 2026

by Abhijit Ubale

· 2,932 Views · 1 Like

How to Use AWS IAM Identity Center for Scalable, Compliant Cloud Access Control

This article explains how AWS IAM Identity Center centralizes access control and helps teams manage secure, compliant access across AWS environments.

March 9, 2026

by Ankush Madaan

· 2,430 Views

AWS Transfer Family SFTP Setup (Password + SSH Key Users) Using Lambda Identity Provider + S3

Deploy a managed AWS Transfer Family SFTP server backed by S3, using a Lambda identity provider for password and SSH-key logins.

March 4, 2026

by Praveen Chaitanya Jakku

· 4,893 Views

Lessons From Our Network Crash (And What I Wish I'd Known Sooner)

Network administration done right requires data-driven strategies and real-time insights that prevent problems before they affect users.

March 4, 2026

by Sascha Neumeier

· 1,287 Views

AWS Step Functions + AI: Smarter Orchestration in Modern Applications

Learn to combine AWS Step Functions with Generative AI for scalable orchestration, featuring architecture patterns and code examples

March 2, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,858 Views

Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug

Cloud systems scale — but unchecked, they can bankrupt you. Measure, automate, and optimize costs to keep your infrastructure resilient and your budget intact.

March 2, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,438 Views

Hands-On with Azure Local via the Azure Portal

This guide explains how to deploy LocalBox with Azure Bicep and create Azure VMs, covering setup, networking, images, and deployment without physical hardware.

March 2, 2026

by Sanjeev Kumar

· 1,709 Views

Mastering the AWS Well-Architected AI Stack: A Deep Dive into ML, GenAI, and Sustainability Lenses

Use AWS’s ML, GenAI, and Sustainability lenses together to build AI systems that are production-ready, governed, cost-efficient, and energy-efficient.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,973 Views · 1 Like

Why Retries Are More Dangerous Than Failures

Retries can amplify failures into outages. Use backoff, circuit breakers, idempotency, load shedding, and observability to keep systems stable under pressure.

February 27, 2026

by David Iyanu Jonathan

· 2,825 Views · 1 Like

Unified Intelligence: Mastering the Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning Integration

Bridge the gap between Big Data and production ML. Learn to integrate Azure Databricks with Azure Machine Learning for a seamless, scalable end-to-end MLOps workflow.

February 27, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 1,469 Views

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