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Optimizing Prometheus and Grafana with the Prometheus Operator

Let's discuss cluster monitoring fundamentals and how we can use Prometheus Operator to deploy Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Kubernetes cluster.

July 20, 2021

by Kevin Taylor

· 6,647 Views · 3 Likes

How to Create a Kubernetes Cluster and Load Balancer for Local Development

This guide will show you one of many ways that you can set up and tear down a local Kubernetes cluster with a load balancer for use as a local development environment.

July 16, 2021

by Ken Lee

· 17,349 Views · 7 Likes

4 Key Observability Metrics for Distributed Applications

What to watch with your cloud applications- in this post, we'll cover areas your metrics should focus on to ensure you're not missing key insights.

July 12, 2021

by Michael Bogan

CORE

· 13,227 Views · 2 Likes

Top 10 Open Source Projects for SREs and DevOps

In this blog, we look at some of the most sought-out open source projects in the areas of monitoring, deployment, and maintenance.

Updated July 11, 2021

by Nir Sharma

· 37,618 Views · 10 Likes

Kubernetes Service Types

There are various services types involved in Kubernetes that help group pods into a single end point to be attached to services for stable IP addresses.

July 2, 2021

by Kiran Kumar

· 12,817 Views · 5 Likes

Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels

Incident severity levels are a measurement of the impact an incident has on the business. Classifying the severity of an issue is critical to decide how quickly and efficiently problems get resolved.

June 25, 2021

by nancy chauhan

· 15,620 Views · 5 Likes

Understanding Open Telemetry and Observability w/ Splunk's Spiros Xanthos

Splunk's VP of Observability breaks down what the future of data and OpenTelemetry look like on the Dev Interrupted Podcast.

June 22, 2021

by Dan Lines

· 16,991 Views · 5 Likes

Write Faster and More Efficient SQL Queries

This article explores the best strategies for SQL query optimization, including indexing, SELECT statements, wildcards, and EXPLAIN query analysis.

June 13, 2021

by Everett Berry

· 7,364 Views · 4 Likes

Load-Balancing Minecraft Servers with Kong Gateway

Explore port forwarding and load balancing with Kong Gateway and Minecraft servers.

May 24, 2021

by Michael Bogan

CORE

· 17,760 Views · 3 Likes

Chaos Engineering: Blocked Threads

A thread will enter into a BLOCKED state when it can't acquire a lock on an object because another thread already holds the lock on the object and doesn’t release it.

May 20, 2021

by Ram Lakshmanan

CORE

· 10,881 Views · 9 Likes

High-Performance Batch Processing Using Apache Spark and Spring Batch

Batch processing is dealing with a large amount of data; it actually is a method of running high-volume, repetitive data jobs and each job does a specific task.

May 16, 2021

by Reza Ganji

CORE

· 29,742 Views · 7 Likes

Are You Tracking Kubernetes Applications Effectively?

Contrary to logs and observability, which show what happens on a service, tracing allows developers and operators to follow a specific request and how it calls different services and dependencies

May 10, 2021

by Leonid Sandler

· 21,373 Views · 5 Likes

How to Install VPN on Linux?

Installing a VPN on a Linux machine can give you added security and protect private information to be exposed on the internet. Check out how to do so in this article.

May 10, 2021

by Raunak Jain

· 16,859 Views · 1 Like

What is RAID in Linux?

RAID in Linux can be used to create logical volumes to ensure recovery from disk failures, backups, etc. RAID uses techniques such as mirroring and stripping.

May 10, 2021

by Raunak Jain

· 27,944 Views · 1 Like

Transforming TCP Sockets to HTTP With Go

Use Go to help your apps communicate!

May 2, 2021

by Gonzalo Ayuso

· 11,956 Views · 2 Likes

Runbooks vs. Playbooks: Explaining the Difference

The terms runbooks and playbooks are often used interchangeably, But there are important differences between the two, and each has its place.

May 1, 2021

by Austin Gunter

· 8,563 Views · 3 Likes

Batch Processing Large Data Sets with Spring Boot and Spring Batch

This article contains a quick video with a great tutorial for batch processing large data sets with Spring Boot and Spring batch.

April 29, 2021

by Ram N

· 8,248 Views · 3 Likes

Linux Machine Compromised: Power of Observation

In debugging any problem, 2 things are important: Observation, and combining your general observations and observations at the time of issue to conclude something.

April 29, 2021

by Sahil Aggarwal

· 5,366 Views · 4 Likes

Chaos Engineering: Thread Leak

‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread’ will be thrown when more threads are created than the memory capacity of the device.

April 29, 2021

by Ram Lakshmanan

CORE

· 8,985 Views · 2 Likes

Observability and GitOps

Observability is vital; it allows us to manage a system properly, determine if it is working correctly, and decide what needs to be fixed, changed, or improved.

April 27, 2021

by Nicolas Giron

· 13,221 Views · 11 Likes

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