Performance Resources

Top Book Picks for Site Reliability Engineers

As an experienced SRE, I believe reading is fundamental. Here is a list of a few books that I feel every SRE will benefit from to become better at their jobs.

May 7, 2025

by Krishna Vinnakota

· 5,972 Views · 3 Likes

The Ultimate Chaos Testing Guide

Discover the safest ways to unleash controlled chaos to ensure your applications thrive under real-world unpredictability.

May 7, 2025

by Jyothsna devi

· 3,387 Views

Hybrid Cloud vs Multi-Cloud: Choosing the Right Strategy for AI Scalability and Security

As AI adoption accelerates, enterprises must choose the right cloud strategy to ensure scalability, security, and performance.

May 6, 2025

by Vaibhav Tupe

· 5,109 Views

How Large Tech Companies Architect Resilient Systems for Millions of Users

Learn how top tech companies build resilient, scalable systems with cloud failover, auto-scaling, microservices, and observability for high availability.

May 2, 2025

by Ravi Teja Thutari

CORE

· 5,299 Views · 8 Likes

Rust and WebAssembly: Unlocking High-Performance Web Apps

Together enable the development of secure, fast, and high-performance web applications, powering real-time tools and browser games under modern reliability standards.

May 2, 2025

by Sairamakrishna BuchiReddy Karri

· 4,619 Views · 1 Like

Docker Base Images Demystified: A Practical Guide

This article explores different base image types — scratch, Alpine, and distroless — and shares practical tips for building efficient, secure Docker images.

May 2, 2025

by Istvan Foldhazi

· 8,931 Views · 9 Likes

Zero Trust for AWS NLBs: Why It Matters and How to Do It

Implementing Zero Trust with NLB helps create robust security for your network while preserving the performance benefits of network load balancing (NLB).

May 1, 2025

by Sathish Holla

· 5,670 Views · 4 Likes

Scaling Mobile App Performance: How We Cut Screen Load Time From 8s to 2s

We cut our mobile app’s screen load time from 8 seconds to 2 seconds by optimizing network requests, simplifying the UI, and improving image loading.

April 30, 2025

by Purushottam Raj

· 3,151 Views

Debugging Core Dump Files on Linux - A Detailed Guide

This guide explains how to enable, generate, and debug core dumps in Linux using tools like GDB, Valgrind, and Crash Utility to analyze core dumps

April 29, 2025

by Srinivas Chippagiri

CORE

· 26,127 Views · 5 Likes

SQL Server Index Optimization Strategies: Best Practices with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts

This guide covers the effective implementation of Ola Hallengren's SQL Server Maintenance Solution for index optimization, especially in Availability Group environments.

April 25, 2025

by arvind toorpu

CORE

· 9,095 Views · 4 Likes

Analyzing “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to create a thread” Error

Java applications may throw the error “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to create a thread: retVal” when they cannot create a thread.

April 25, 2025

by Harish Kumar Murugesan

· 7,721 Views · 4 Likes

Scalability 101: How to Build, Measure, and Improve It

Scalability is probably one of the most crucial non-business features of every modern-day system and this post is a perfect intro to it.

April 25, 2025

by Bartłomiej Żyliński

CORE

· 4,016 Views · 1 Like

Key Considerations in Cross-Model Migration

Navigating the challenges of AI model migration, this guide explores differences in tokenization, context windows, formatting, and response structure across LLMs.

April 23, 2025

by Lavanya Gupta

· 3,686 Views · 1 Like

Apache Doris vs Elasticsearch: An In-Depth Comparative Analysis

Apache Doris excels in complex analytics with SQL support and high performance, while Elasticsearch is ideal for full-text search and real-time retrieval.

April 23, 2025

by Michael Hayden

· 4,911 Views · 2 Likes

How to Restore a Transaction Log Backup in SQL Server

Learn to restore SQL Server transaction log backups step by step, including prerequisites, backup types, troubleshooting errors, and best practices.

April 22, 2025

by Nisarg Upadhyay

· 5,343 Views

Mastering Fluent Bit: Installing Fluent Bit From Source (Part 1)

This intro to mastering Fluent Bit covers what Fluent Bit is, why source installs matter, and how to get it running locally in minutes.

April 17, 2025

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 7,560 Views · 4 Likes

How to Attach SQL Database Without a Transaction Log File

Learn to attach a SQL database without a log file using SSMS or T-SQL. Follow steps to seamlessly attach your database, even if the log file is missing.

April 15, 2025

by Priyanka Chauhan

· 6,189 Views · 1 Like

Overview of Telemetry for Kubernetes Clusters: Enhancing Observability and Monitoring

Telemetry in Kubernetes provides data-driven insights into cluster health and performance, ensuring scalability, and reliability through metrics, logs, and traces.

April 14, 2025

by Srinivas Chippagiri

CORE

· 20,485 Views · 4 Likes

Chaos Engineering for Microservices

Learn how to implement chaos engineering using Chaos Toolkit and Chaos Monkey for Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, Kubernetes, and Istio to enhance system resilience.

April 11, 2025

by Prabhu Chinnasamy

· 14,108 Views · 57 Likes

It's 2025: How Do You Choose Between Doris and ClickHouse?

Doris or ClickHouse? Doris excels in complex SQL analytics, real-time updates, and usability, while ClickHouse offers extreme performance in single-table queries.

April 9, 2025

by Zen Hua

· 5,727 Views · 2 Likes

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