Performance Resources

Tail Sampling: The Future of Intelligent Observability in Distributed Systems

Discover how tail sampling in OpenTelemetry enhances observability, reduces costs, and captures critical traces for faster detection and smarter system monitoring.

August 5, 2025

by Rishab Jolly

· 3,347 Views · 1 Like

Estimating Software Projects: A Practical Approach for Tech Leads

Accurate estimates enable leadership to determine the project feasibility. Therefore, it is important for tech leads to provide realistic estimates.

August 5, 2025

by Shweta Venkateswaran

· 1,713 Views · 2 Likes

Building a Simple AIOps Monitoring Dashboard With Prometheus and Grafana

Learn to build a simple AIOps dashboard using Prometheus, Grafana, and ML-based anomaly detection to monitor metrics, set alerts, and prevent failures.

August 5, 2025

by Balajee Asish Brahmandam

· 4,357 Views · 1 Like

Fine-Tuning LLMs Locally Using MLX LM: A Comprehensive Guide

MLX enables local LLM fine-tuning on Mac with LoRA. Train 7B models using 16GB RAM, eliminating cloud costs while maintaining quality.

August 4, 2025

by Aditya Karnam Gururaj Rao

· 10,392 Views

Deep Observability in Node.js Using OpenTelemetry and Pino

Enhance total observability within a distributed microservice architecture using modern tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Pino logger.

August 4, 2025

by Lakshmi Narayana Rasalay

· 4,662 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond 200 OK: Full-Stack Observability for Developers

200 OK isn’t success; we should own the complete user journey from click to memory with traceable, observable, full-stack systems.

August 4, 2025

by Mohit Menghnani

CORE

· 2,371 Views · 3 Likes

Scaling Systems for Travel Tuesday: Surviving Billion-Event Spikes

How we scaled systems to survive Travel Tuesday traffic spikes—billions of events, load shedding, smart caching, and deep observability.

July 28, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 2,252 Views · 3 Likes

Measuring DevOps Success in the Enterprise With DORA Metrics

Learn how DORA metrics help enterprises measure DevOps performance, boost software quality, and drive continuous improvement.

July 28, 2025

by May Sanders

· 1,681 Views · 2 Likes

Avoid Downtime: Smart Strategies to Upgrade Legacy Applications Without Breaking Systems

Learn the risks of legacy apps, why downtime matters, and how to modernize them smoothly using smart strategies and phased migration.

July 25, 2025

by May Sanders

· 2,240 Views · 1 Like

The Golden Signals of Monitoring

Learn how Google’s Golden Signals — latency, traffic, errors, and saturation — help monitor service health and detect issues before they escalate.

July 23, 2025

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 2,593 Views · 4 Likes

Designing Retry-Resilient Fare Pipelines With Idempotent Event Handling

Design retry-safe fare pipelines with idempotent event handling to ensure consistency across failures, retries, and duplications.

July 23, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 3,203 Views · 2 Likes

Debugging Distributed Flight Search: What Logs Alone Won’t Tell You

Logs aren’t enough. Learn how tracing, metrics, and correlation IDs help debug fare mismatches in distributed flight search systems.

July 22, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 2,046 Views · 3 Likes

How to Create Loki Alerts via PrometheusRule Resource

Enable PrometheusRule alerts for Loki logs with Grafana Alloy — even with Helm. Get unified, declarative alerting for logs and metrics in Kubernetes.

July 22, 2025

by Alexander Sharov

· 3,646 Views · 1 Like

Lock-Free Programming: From Primitives to Working Structures

Locking is not the only way to deal with concurrency. Lock-free programming approaches are on the opposite side. Let's dive into them.

July 22, 2025

by Bartłomiej Żyliński

CORE

· 4,616 Views · 7 Likes

6 Ways AI-Enhanced Phishing Can Hijack Developer Workflows (and What to Do About It)

Phishing has evolved into a major supply chain security threat, targeting software developers with attacks on development tools and workflows.

July 21, 2025

by Philip Piletic

CORE

· 3,042 Views · 3 Likes

Designing and Operating Single-Tenant Architectures at Scale

This article covers deployment patterns, automation via CI/CD, centralized observability, and best practices to scale single-tenant dedicated environments efficiently.

July 21, 2025

by Avik Bose

· 2,212 Views · 1 Like

ArchUnit, Unit Testing The Architecture

ArchUnit will help you whenever the compiler will not make it, especially in enforcing a package structure or architecture.

July 21, 2025

by Bartłomiej Żyliński

CORE

· 1,693 Views · 1 Like

Log Spikes? No Sweat: How Top DevOps Teams Tame Bursty Workloads

Be ready for log storms: scale smart, ingest everything, and stay clear when traffic surges hit.

July 21, 2025

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 1,808 Views · 1 Like

Best Practices for Syncing Hive Data to Apache Doris : From Scenario Matching to Performance Tuning

Learn how to efficiently sync and analyze big data by combining Hive’s storage with Doris’s real-time analytics using various sync strategies and optimizations.

July 17, 2025

by Darren Xu

· 4,134 Views

Understanding Time Series Databases

Time series databases (TSDBs) are specialized database systems optimized for storing, retrieving, and analyzing chronological data.

July 14, 2025

by Nikhil Makhija

· 3,034 Views · 3 Likes

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