Performance Resources

A Primer on the History and Evolution of Incident Management to Today

Many of the concepts SREs take for granted about incident management originated with efforts to fight fires in California in the 1970s. Find out more below!

January 21, 2022

by JJ Tang

· 4,619 Views · 2 Likes

Load Balancing — MQTT Broker Clustering Part 1

A quick introduction to MQTT message broking, the challenges of clustering, and then load balancing.

January 21, 2022

by Zaiming (stone) Shi

· 20,919 Views · 3 Likes

Optimization Techniques Using Java Streams

In this post, we'll focus on how to handle the post-processing of the data using Java Streams. We'll also see very powerful techniques to optimize and order the results.

Updated January 21, 2022

by Manu Barriola

· 14,477 Views · 10 Likes

The Power of Code Refactoring: How to Measure Refactoring Success

Many engineering teams struggle to measure the effectiveness of their refactoring efforts. Let's look at the 5 metrics that will help you measure refactoring success.

January 20, 2022

by Alex Omeyer

· 10,540 Views · 7 Likes

How I Built My Own Stock Index Tracker With Time-Series Data Using Low Code

Step by step tutorial around how to create a stock index tracker with time-series charts using an open-source low-code framework, financial APIs, and Google sheets.

January 20, 2022

by Vihar Kurama

· 4,156 Views · 4 Likes

Solving Four Kubernetes Networking Challenges

Deploying across multiple clouds, maintaining multiple environments, and ensuring reliable and scalable network policies; we’ll look at how to tackle those challenges.

January 18, 2022

by Michael Bogan

CORE

· 115,248 Views · 6 Likes

Will Automated Cloud Optimization Replace Your DevOps Job?

Automated cloud optimization isn't going to steal your job; it will buy you time to do more interesting things than managing your infrastructure.

January 14, 2022

by Laurent Gil

· 5,882 Views · 2 Likes

Detecting and Solving Segmentation Faults in Linux Containers

In this article, we will explain what segmentation fault is, what causes them, and how to detect or troubleshoot them.

Updated January 13, 2022

by Hitesh Jethva

· 21,341 Views · 3 Likes

Building an SRE Team With Specialization

In this blog post, we’ll look at the advantages of an SRE team where each member is a specialist, some crucial SRE specialist roles, and how they help.

January 12, 2022

by Emily Arnott

· 6,547 Views · 2 Likes

Polyglot Cloud-Native Debugging - Beyond APM and Logging

Cloud-native debugging is a tedious process of sifting through logs and analyzing dashboards. Continuous observability enables last mile investigation.

January 12, 2022

by Shai Almog

CORE

· 2,955 Views · 3 Likes

CockroachDB With Kerberos and Docker Compose

Today, we'll automate all the things with Docker and docker compose specifically to stand up a quick and repeatable environment to troubleshoot CockroachDB and Kerberos.

January 6, 2022

by Artem Ervits

CORE

· 5,639 Views · 3 Likes

Batch Processing in Go

Batching is commonly used to split a large amount of work into smaller chunks for optimal processing. Here, look at two ways to batch process in Go.

January 5, 2022

by Priyanka Nawalramka

· 24,203 Views · 5 Likes

The Importance of Access Logs in Performance Issue Analysis

Learn how performance issue analysis using access logs of a web server and load balancer can help you find the root cause for various HTTP Error codes.

January 3, 2022

by Harish Kumar Murugesan

· 4,008 Views · 3 Likes

Hardware Optimization: Best Practices for Database Performance Boost

This article goes through the process of choosing the right components for your database server, ensuring the best performance for database workloads and apps.

December 27, 2021

by Borko Drljaca

· 9,148 Views · 1 Like

Metadata Synchronization in Alluxio: Design, Implementation, and Optimization

Metadata synchronization is an important feature in Alluxio. This post describes the design, implementation, and other internal processes in order to tune the performance

Updated December 17, 2021

by David Zhu

· 7,488 Views · 3 Likes

Practical Guide to SRE: Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Learn why IaC is a great tool for SREs in particular, offering special advantages for enforcing configurations that maximize reliability across all IT assets.

December 10, 2021

by Quentin Rousseau

· 10,040 Views · 3 Likes

Circuit Breaker And Retry with Spring Cloud Resiliance4j

In this post, we'll look into how we can integrate a circuit breaker and a retry mechanism, to handle failures while making synchronous calls to another service

Updated December 9, 2021

by Amrut Prabhu

· 11,722 Views · 2 Likes

Using Datafold to Enhance DBT for Data Observability

We’ll look at how Datafold and dbt work in tandem to bring observability and repeatability into your data quality process.

December 7, 2021

by Michael Bogan

CORE

· 9,112 Views · 1 Like

DevOps Services Pricing: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud

To make the choice between three market giants (Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud) clearer, we've conducted research on the pricing plans for DevOps services.

December 1, 2021

by Tetiana Stoyko

· 11,437 Views · 3 Likes

Adding a Custom Domain and SSL to AWS EC2

In this article, discover how to set up a custom domain name and make your server accessible via HTTPS.

November 29, 2021

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 15,823 Views · 4 Likes

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