Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Azure Synapse vs Snowflake: The Definitive Guide

Discover the key differences between Azure Synapse and Snowflake around architecture, pricing, security, compliance, data support, data protection, performance, and more.

Updated July 5, 2022

by Luke Kline

· 7,309 Views · 5 Likes

Unified Observability Exporters: Metrics, Logs, and Tracing

This second post of a series discussing unified observability with microservices and the Oracle database takes a deeper look at the Metrics, Logs, and Tracing exporters.

July 3, 2022

by Paul Parkinson

· 9,277 Views · 2 Likes

7 Tips for Using Instrumentation and Metrics To Align Site Reliability With Business Goals

This article is an excerpted and paraphrased chapter from the O’Reilly book, Cloud Native Monitoring: Practical Challenges and Solutions for Modern Architecture.

July 1, 2022

by Rob Skillington

· 8,886 Views · 1 Like

Monitoring Spring Boot Application With Prometheus and Grafana

Learn step by step process of monitoring your Spring Boot application with Prometheus and Grafana.

June 30, 2022

by Amrut Prabhu

· 7,796 Views · 2 Likes

3 Best Tools to Implement Kubernetes Observability

Three important Kubernetes observability tools that have become the de-facto industry standards for enterprises within the cloud-native community.

June 30, 2022

by Ruchita Varma

· 10,717 Views · 2 Likes

MySQL to DynamoDB: Build a Streaming Data Pipeline on AWS Using Kafka

Use change data capture with MSK Connect to sync data between Aurora MySQL and DynamoDB.

June 29, 2022

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 36,180 Views · 3 Likes

To Shift Right, You Need Observability

If you're going to purposefully allow bugs to enter production, you need to make sure that your teams have the right tools to fix these bugs quickly.

June 28, 2022

by Sergey Katsev

· 7,340 Views · 1 Like

Is DataOps the Future of the Modern Data Stack?

As data needs scale, teams need to start prioritizing reliability. Here’s why DataOps might be the answer—and how you can get started.

June 27, 2022

by Glen Willis

· 9,025 Views · 4 Likes

Troubleshooting HTTP 502 Bad Gateway in AWS EBS

Learn how to troubleshoot HTTP 502 bad gateway in AWS EBS.

Updated June 25, 2022

by Ram Lakshmanan

CORE

· 18,891 Views · 1 Like

Testing Your Infrastructure as Code Using Terratest

As more and more infrastructure becomes code, it is essential to have unit and integration tests for your IaC. What is IaC and testing your Infrastructure code mean?

June 23, 2022

by Akash Warkhade

· 7,901 Views · 1 Like

Build a Data Pipeline on AWS With Kafka, Kafka Connect, and DynamoDB

This is a two-part series that provides a step-by-step walkthrough of data pipelines. In this post, learn how to integrate DynamoDB with MSK and MSK Connect.

June 21, 2022

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 41,689 Views · 3 Likes

Building a QR Code Generator with Azure Functions

How to build a fun QR code project and learn about Azure Functions

June 19, 2022

by Jeremy Morgan

· 5,296 Views · 2 Likes

Deploying Java Applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

This tutorial shares a simple example of deploying a Java application to Elastic Beanstalk by using Amazon CDK.

Updated June 17, 2022

by Emin Bilgic

· 3,966 Views · 2 Likes

Improve Performance and Data Availability With Elastic Block Store (EBS)

With a careful selection of Elastic Block Store (EBS) types and clever optimizations, deploying DBaaS on EBS can achieve even better performance.

June 15, 2022

by Chenhao Huang

· 5,643 Views · 3 Likes

Installing Joomla on SQL Server 2008 and SQL Azure

In this post, learn how to simply install Joomla on one of Microsoft's SQL-based backends with the setup utilities provided here.

June 15, 2022

by Mitch Pronschinske

· 30,954 Views · 1 Like

AWS IAM Security Best Practices

Identity and access management is a pillar of security. With the advent of the cloud, it got a lot more complicated.

June 13, 2022

by Tiexin Guo

· 6,756 Views · 4 Likes

How to Build Reliability Into Your Data Stack

Data has become more integral to the day-to-day operations of modern business and powers digital products; the need for reliable data will only increase.

June 8, 2022

by Lior Gavish

· 5,725 Views · 1 Like