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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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Erin Baez / October 20

Cloud Data Warehouse: What Is It and What Are Some Examples?

In the twenty-first century, data is the new gold. Almost all (successful) companies rely on data to grow. Understanding and adapting to clients’ needs are the most direct ways to increase sales. The bigger the…
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Scalyr / October 14

Scalyr helps Life360 deliver for families worldwide

Life360 uses mobile technology to keep families connected and protected. It is a platform that brings families closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with and protect the people they care about most. Millions…
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Erin Baez / October 14

Logging as a Service: Why the Cloud Is So Attractive

Imagine this: You have your services up and running in production. Then you get a call. Something’s broken in production. What’s the first thing you do? Where do you start so you can figure out…
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Erin Baez / October 13

A Detailed Introduction and Guide to Using Cloudwatch Metrics

CloudWatch is a suite of cloud-native visualization tools for Amazon Web Services (AWS) monitoring and logging. Accessing CloudWatch metrics removes the uncertainty that creeps in when your applications hosted on AWS stop working as they…
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Erin Baez / October 7

What’s an Error Budget? Don’t Promise 100% Reliability

Nothing in this world is 100% foolproof. Believe it or not, you can’t build something that never fails! But even though you know this, you might still find yourself striving for perfection. Why? After all,…
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Erin Baez / October 6

How To Monitor Your Production Logs and Why You Should

Logging can be much more than a mere troubleshooting tool. Instead of using logs in a reactive approach, it’s possible to use them in a proactive way. Through log monitoring, you can extract much more…
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Erin Baez / September 30

Scalability Testing: What It Really Means and How to Start

Scale, a word that has to do with size, and ability, another word that gets you thinking if an event is possible or not. We could stop right here and have you doing some scalability…
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Erin Baez / September 29

Event Stream Processing: An Introduction and Helpful Guide

Event stream processing is a concept often used in the field of IT. For example, take a system that continuously creates data. Each data point in that system represents an event. A continuous stream of…
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Erin Baez / September 23

Controllability Is Important in Your Production Systems

Today I’m going to explain why controllability is vital in your production systems and why having observable systems is critical. Controllability is a corollary concept related to observability from the control systems theory. Nowadays, people…
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Erin Baez / September 22

Network Bandwidth: An Engineer’s Complete Guide

Whether over the Internet or your office network, wherever there is data flow, performance matters. Network bandwidth is one of the most important factors that determines performance. The demand for it is increasing with time.…
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