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Steve Newman / April 14

1000 Little Breakthroughs

How do you optimize a system by a factor of 100, when you already built it the best you knew how? In recent years, we’ve found ourselves in conversations with potential customers who would love…
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Christine Heckart / January 21

Moving the Needle on Search at Glassdoor

Bhawna Singh is the CTO of Glassdoor and also one of the founding members of ENG, the peer network of VPEs, and CTOs from leading SaaS companies. Bhawna started with Glassdoor five years ago, and…
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Erik Dietrich / January 21

What Is a Site Reliability Engineer? Should You Become One?

Although site reliability engineering has been around for a while, it has only recently gained fame in general software circles. But there are still a lot of questions as to what a site reliability engineer…
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Erin Baez / January 19

Monolith vs. Microservices: The Differences and How to Evolve

A few years ago, I wrote about how software is vital to remain competitive. Yet this statement isn’t exactly true anymore. Most companies have adopted new software or built custom applications to streamline their processes,…
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Erin Baez / January 13

What Is OpenTracing? Everything You Need to Get Started

Ideas about distributed tracing and monitoring across multiple systems have certainly generated quite a buzz. It’s becoming more important than ever before to be able to see what’s going on inside our requests as they…
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Erin Baez / January 12

Elasticsearch vs Splunk: A Comparison and How to Choose

Software logs by themselves aren’t very useful. This isn’t a secret. Developers around the world spend hours building quality logging into their applications, but those logs by themselves aren’t very helpful. To leverage those logs…
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Erin Baez / January 6

Zipkin Tutorial: Get Started Easily With Distributed Tracing

Zipkin is a Java-based distributed tracing system to collect and look up data from distributed systems. Too many things could happen when a request to an HTTP application is made. A request could include a…
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Erin Baez / January 5

Log Collection and How It Works, in Detail

Log collection is the process of collecting log entries from many different sources in an organization and bringing them all to a single place. Why would this be a good thing to do? It all…
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Erin Baez / December 30

Getting Started Quickly With Laravel Logging

You probably know that feeling when something is broken and you don’t know why. It might be a simple bug, but it also might be something more serious. That uncertainty can be frustrating and nerve-wracking.…
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Erin Baez / December 29

What Is MTTD (Mean Time to Detect)? A Detailed Explanation

Mean time to detect (MTTD) is one of the main key performance indicators in incident management. It refers to the mean amount of time it takes for the organization to discover—or detect—an incident. The sooner…
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Erin Baez / December 23

AWS Lambda Tutorial: A Guide to Creating Your First Function

AWS Lambda is one of the leading serverless architectures in the cloud today. It was first-to-market among the major cloud vendors, offers the most competitive pricing, and is employed by Netflix, one of the largest…
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