Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

Performing ETL with AWS Glue Interactive Sessions

AWS Glue interactive session eradicates the complexity of setting up the infrastructure by providing serverless interactive access to AWS Glue Jobs through Jupyter Notebooks.

Updated May 17, 2022

by Mudit Chhabra

· 5,966 Views · 2 Likes

StackPod Episode: Best Practices for AWS Observability With Russell Foster of StackState

When you are running apps in cloud environments like AWS, some observability challenges pop up. In this podcast, learn about some of those challenges.

May 17, 2022

by Annerieke Kortier

· 3,262 Views · 1 Like

What SREs Can Learn From the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022

In this post, unpack the Atlassian outage of April 2022, and take a look at what it stands to teach Site Reliability Engineers.

May 16, 2022

by Weihan Li

· 6,330 Views · 2 Likes

Use Lambda Function URL To Write a Serverless App Backed by DynamoDB

This is a Go Lambda function that's packaged and deployed using AWS SAM.

Updated May 13, 2022

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 40,097 Views · 5 Likes

Getting Started With Redis on AWS the Easy Way

This quick-start guide demonstrates how to use AWS Cloud9 IDE to help you get up and running with MemoryDB for Redis.

May 12, 2022

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 39,516 Views · 3 Likes

Package and Deploy a Lambda Function as a Docker Container With AWS CDK

Deploy a Serverless backend for Slack using Infrastructure-as-code (IaaC).

May 9, 2022

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 36,668 Views · 4 Likes

Upload Files to AWS S3 in JMeter Using Groovy

There are three primary reasons for choosing AWS S3: affordability, speed, and reliability. Here, learn how to upload files to AWS S3 in JMeter using Groovy.

May 5, 2022

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 6,209 Views · 2 Likes

SRE vs. Platform Engineering: The Key Differences, Explained

What are SREs? What are platform engineers? How is each role similar and different? This article explains the answers to each question.

Updated May 4, 2022

by JP Cheung

· 8,079 Views · 4 Likes

Data Observability Doesn't Just Create Savings — It Drives Revenue, Too

If you think the benefits of data observability stop at cost-cutting or avoiding bad outcomes, you’re only looking at half of the equation.

May 4, 2022

by Will Robins

· 3,869 Views · 2 Likes

AWS Serverless Lambda Resiliency: Part 1

Resiliency considerations get complex even for the most basic scenarios and require careful systems thinking and architecture decisions.

Updated April 30, 2022

by Divakar R

· 8,267 Views · 12 Likes

AWS Serverless Lambda Resiliency: Part 2

We continue to address the patterns and considerations for resilience in cloud-native serverless systems with 5 additional scenarios.

April 30, 2022

by Siddhartha Sood

· 4,831 Views · 6 Likes

Using AWS Lambda Function URL To Build a Serverless Backend for Slack

A Slack app that integrates with the Giphy API.

Updated April 30, 2022

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 38,141 Views · 4 Likes

Spinning Your Workflows With Cadence

Open-source Cadence was developed by Uber and based on the AWS SWF (Simple Workflow Service). It's designed to be highly fault-tolerant and scalable.

April 28, 2022

by Paul Brebner

· 6,258 Views · 4 Likes

Building Flows in IBM App Connect Using Connectors

Three examples which show how to build flows that integrate with apps.

April 28, 2022

by shahmini a

· 4,056 Views · 3 Likes

Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’

Programming == magic. In the old 70's series, you can see similarities to software development techniques, methodologies, and approaches.

April 25, 2022

by Leon Adato

· 6,436 Views · 4 Likes

The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs

Learn more about Embedded SREs with their advantages and challenges.

April 12, 2022

by Quentin Rousseau

· 5,889 Views · 3 Likes

10 AWS Services That Use SQL

In this article, we break down 10 AWS services that support at least some SQL syntax, talk about their use cases, and give examples of how to write queries.

April 8, 2022

by Felix Schildorfer

· 6,359 Views · 6 Likes

Observability for Monitoring Microservices: Top 5 Tools

Knowing what's running inside the container, and how the application and code are performing is critical for tackling important issues.

April 7, 2022

by Ruchita Varma

· 7,719 Views · 5 Likes

Cloud Pricing Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud

Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS offer hundreds of different products, with their own service structures, technologies, and pricing models. Let's compare them here.

March 31, 2022

by Gilad David Maayan

· 20,548 Views · 6 Likes

Best Practices, Tools, and Approaches for Kubernetes Monitoring

Let's look at some of the available Kubernetes monitoring and Kubernetes logging tools, including Prometheus for monitoring and Grafana for visualization and dashboards.

March 26, 2022

by Kyle Hunter

· 6,686 Views · 3 Likes

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