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Cricket Scale e01 — Ashutosh Agrawal

Cricket Scale e01 — Ashutosh Agrawal

Unpacking "Cricket Scale" with the person behind the scenes at JioCinema

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Software Observability from the Lens of Radar and a Black Box

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

A case for Observability outside engineering teams

A case for Observability outside engineering teams

Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.

Aniket Rao

How we tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream

How we tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream

Using 'Sharding' to tame High Cardinality data for Levitate - Our Time Series Data Warehouse

Piyush Verma

High Cardinality for Dummies: ELI5

High Cardinality for Dummies: ELI5

High Cardinality woes are far & frequent in today's modern cloud-native environment. What does it mean, & why is it such a pressing problem?

Mohan Dutt Parashar

MTTF vs MTBF vs MTTD vs MTTR

MTTF vs MTBF vs MTTD vs MTTR

This article covers questions such as what are MTTF, MTBF, MTTD, and MTTR, their differences, how to adopt them, and their use cases.

Last9

The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses

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

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

The difference between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering

The difference between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering

In reliability engineering, three concepts keep getting talked about - DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering. How do they differ?

Prathamesh Sonpatki

India vs Pakistan, Site Reliability Engineering, and Shannon Limit

India vs Pakistan, Site Reliability Engineering, and Shannon Limit

How does one ‘detect change’ in a complex infrastructure, so you don’t lose out on critical revenues — A short SRE story

Satyajeet Jadhav

Battling Alert Fatigue

Battling Alert Fatigue

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

Last9

Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

One of the many pitfalls of friction between engineering and business is the lack of fundamental measurements on the health of engineering. But how does business measure engineering efficacy, and how does engineering posit its standing to business?

Sidu Ponnappa

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality. Here’s an explanation as I have understood it.

Piyush Verma

Reliability Tools

Reliability Tools

A guide through the most popular DevOps and SRE tools for building your reliability stack.

Abhi Puranam

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

The ins and outs of conducting an effective postmortem. Ready templates and examples from leading organizations around the world!

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Choosing Effective SLIs

Choosing Effective SLIs

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

Akshay Chugh

Deployment Readiness Checklists

Deployment Readiness Checklists

A ready checklist of a comprehensive list of steps and activities involved in the deployment of your application.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

The most interesting talks from SRECon 2021!

The most interesting talks from SRECon 2021!

SRECon is a conference hosted by USENIX and is focused on site reliability, distributed systems, and systems engineering at scale. Learn about some of the most interesting talks from SRECon 2021.

Akshay Chugh

Doing SRE the Right Way!

Doing SRE the Right Way!

A well-thought-out approach to SRE, which will help site reliability engineers and software engineers develop and maintain a useful, consistent, and effective SRE strategy for their products!

Piyush Verma

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

How to get the most out of your logs!

Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

Akshay Chugh, Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Components in Designing Effective SLOs

Components in Designing Effective SLOs

A primer on how to design and implement effective Serice Level Objectives(SLOs)

Akshat Goyal

Sleep Friendly Alerting

Sleep Friendly Alerting

We've all been woken up with that dreaded Slack notification at ungodly hours only to realise that the alert was all smoke and no fire. The perfect recipe for dread and alert fatigue.

Akshat Goyal