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Software Observability from the Lens of Radar and a Black Box
Observability is often a misunderstood and misused term. It has come to mean nothing and everything at this point. Read more on how Observability can be viewed from the lens of a Radar and a Black Box.
Nishant Modak
Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures
What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?
Nishant Modak
Take back control of your Monitoring
Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse
Nishant Modak
The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses
The current tech winter has a number of glaring stories — cyclical as they may be, there’s one truth that’s been gleaned over more than the rest; the money spent on internal software tools to support tech infrastructure is bloated. And there’s nothing cyclical about this infrastructure spending.
Nishant Modak
Introducing Levitate: ‘uplifting’ your metrics woes because self-management sucks like gravity
Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical workloads for monitoring, at a fraction of the cost.
Nishant Modak
Why we auto-delete slack messages - killing tribal knowledge at Last9
At last9, we auto-delete slack messages after 2 days on all personal Direct Messages. These retention policies force teams to improve documentation, kill tribal knowledge and drive accountability for mistakes, errors.
Nishant Modak
We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!
Change is the only constant in a cloud environment. The number of microservices is constantly growing, and each is being deployed several times a day or week, all hosted on ephemeral servers. A typical customer request depends on at least three internal and one external service. It’s a densely connected web of systems. Any change in such a connected system usually introduces a ripple. It’s tough to understand these impacts. Alert fatigue, tribal knowledge of failures, and manual correlation acro
Nishant Modak
Services; not Server
Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop.
Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma
Systems Observability
Observability is not just about being able to ask questions to your systems. It's also about getting those answers in minutes and not hours.
Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma