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Kathleen Estreich / February 14

Being Transparent in Our Hiring Process

The goal of every hiring interaction is to find the right people for the role and for Scalyr. We want our candidates to get excited about the challenges we are tackling and how they can…
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Steve Newman / May 6

Searching 1TB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms

TL;DR: Four years ago, I left Google with the idea for a new kind of server monitoring tool. The idea was to combine traditionally separate functions such as log exploration, log aggregation and analysis, metrics…
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Erin Baez / March 19

What Is Site Reliability Engineering?

As technology advances many new roles are coming up. One of these roles, which has been around for about 15 years, is site reliability engineer. However, site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently gained popularity. Many…
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Erin Baez / March 12

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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Dave McAllister / March 7

Observability?! – Where do we go from here?

This blog post is from Alexander Wallrabenstein, originally presented on 9 February 2019 on Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, a public corporation. We strongly recommend this blog for its insights and information. It is reposted here…
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Scalyr / March 6

DevOps Security Challenges and How to Deal With Them

Overview DevOps is an increasingly popular approach to software development that, as the name suggests, melds together the previously separate roles of software development and IT operations. DevOps teams collaborate to continuously build, release, and…
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Erin Baez / March 5

Log4net Configuration: Logging Exactly the Way You Want It

What is log4net and why would you use it? Log4net is a logging utility for .NET applications. It’s based on log4j, which is for Java applications. Like log4j, log4net is an Apache project. You would…
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Bill Farner / February 28

How we interview API Engineers

Here at Scalyr, we value honesty and transparency. As part of living those values, we’re excited to share more specific details about our interview process for the API engineering team. Our goal with this post…
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Victor Lin / February 27

“Kubernetes: Impact on DevOps” Seminar Recap

The second seminar in our Scalyr Insights Series, “Kubernetes: Impact on DevOps”, was presented by our CTO and co-founder, Steven Czerwinski. Our resident Community Guy Dave McAllister was working behind the scenes (say “Hello!” to…
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Erin Baez / February 26

Jaeger Tracing Tutorial: Get Going From Scratch

The Jaeger tracing system is an open-source tracing system for microservices, and it supports the OpenTracing standard. We talked about OpenTracing and why it’s essential in a previous post. So now, let’s talk more about…
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Bill Farner / February 19

Scalyr Distributed Systems Engineer Hiring Overview

We’re excited to introduce you to our great team and culture at Scalyr, and the opportunity to learn more about you. Scalyr’s core values include honesty and transparency, which we exercise even before your first…
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Erin Baez / February 19

Getting Started Quickly with Meteor Logging

We’ve covered a lot of bases in our “getting started quickly” posts. In addition to JavaScript and Node.js, we’ve created guides for C#, Java, Python, and more. Today we’ll discuss logging from a Meteor point of view. Now, since…
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