Performance Resources

API Design Principles for Optimal Performance and Scalability

Optimize API performance with five principles: minimize latency, efficient scaling, strategic caching, optimize resources, and continuous monitoring.

June 22, 2023

by Julie Moore

· 5,300 Views · 1 Like

What Happens When You Type a URL Into Your Browser?

At a high level, the following operations happen in the background when you type a URL into your browser and press Enter: 1. DNS resolution 2. TCP three-way handshake 3. HTTPS upgrade 4. HTTP Request/Response 5. Browser rendering the response from the server.

June 21, 2023

by N K

· 4,481 Views · 1 Like

Elevating System Management: The Role of Monitoring and Observability in DevOps

This blog delves into monitoring and observability in DevOps. The perfect equilibrium between these two is vital to ensuring efficient system management.

June 21, 2023

by Saurabh Pandey

· 6,377 Views · 4 Likes

Observability Architecture: Financial Payments Example

Explore open-source cloud-based o11y financial payments architecture with a schematic diagram that captures the elements of a successful payment solution.

June 21, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 6,883 Views · 3 Likes

Distributed Tracing: Past, Present, and Future

Distributed tracing is a necessary and intuitive view required for being able to observe distributed application architectures in production.

June 21, 2023

by Samyukktha T

· 3,999 Views · 2 Likes

Optimizing API Resource Utilization With Rate Limiting and Throttle Controls

These techniques regulate request rates, improving performance, stability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

June 20, 2023

by Yvonne Parks

· 3,644 Views · 1 Like

How to Get Started With Istio in Kubernetes in 5 Steps

Open-source Istio service mesh simplifies and secures the network of microservices in the cloud. Check out the 5 steps you need to deploy Istio in K8s.

June 20, 2023

by Ravi Verma

· 6,580 Views · 3 Likes

Scaling Quality Engineering: Embracing End-to-End Testing for Agile Success in SAFe

SAFe values end-to-end testing, which includes testing types, acceptance criteria, stakeholder involvement, and SAFe ceremony activities.

June 20, 2023

by Arvind Bhardwaj

· 4,089 Views · 2 Likes

Building the Best Kubernetes Test Cluster on MacOS

Matthew Revell-Gordon explores building a local Kubernetes test cluster to mimic cloud-based deployments better using Colima, Kind, and MetalLB.

June 20, 2023

by Matthew Revell-Gordon

· 4,479 Views · 2 Likes

How WeBank Reduced Their Batch Processing Time by 58% With a Scale-Out MySQL Alternative

This article highlights how WeBank leveraged TiDB – an open-source, distributed SQL database, reducing its batch processing time by 58%.

June 20, 2023

by Qiang Cao

· 3,877 Views · 2 Likes

Guide: How to Mask Sensitive Information Using Fluent Bit

In this article, the author will discuss how to mask sensitive information using Fluent Bit, a popular open-source log processor.

June 19, 2023

by Sharad Regoti

· 6,740 Views · 2 Likes

Redefining Incident Response

After her keynote address at the LeadDev conference in New York, Nora took the time to talk to us about chaos engineering and how to lead based on incidents.

June 19, 2023

by Conor Bronsdon

· 2,911 Views · 1 Like

Virtualization Security Risks and Solutions

Understand the security threats to virtualization platforms and how to overcome them.

June 18, 2023

by Aditya Bhuyan

· 5,231 Views · 1 Like

Getting Started With Prometheus Workshop: Relabeling Metrics in Prometheus

Interested in open-source observability? Learn about relabeling metrics and how to apply them when mapping, aggregating, dropping, or filtering scraped metrics.

June 16, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 6,079 Views · 5 Likes

Exploring the Benefits of Kubernetes

Here, we’ll delve into the benefits of Kubernetes and explore how it empowers developers to build scalable and portable applications.

June 16, 2023

by Ruchita Varma

· 7,221 Views · 1 Like

Building Resilience With Chaos Engineering and Litmus

In this article, learn to execute chaos engineering to build reliable systems and explore the steps involved in designing a resiliency framework.

June 15, 2023

by Ruturaj Kadikar

· 7,633 Views · 5 Likes

Install Prometheus on Kubernetes: Tutorial and Examples

This article walks you through each step to install and configure Prometheus in detail.

June 15, 2023

by Vishal Padghan

· 10,065 Views · 3 Likes

Low Overhead Continuous Contextual Production Profiling

Explore different stack trace visualizations and low overhead continuous contextual production profiling for optimizing performance analysis in production.

June 15, 2023

by Ravi Pulle

· 5,031 Views · 3 Likes