Erin Baez, Author at Scalyr

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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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Erin Baez / September 15

Observability Tools: Getting to the Why in Your Prod Apps

Observability is a somewhat recent addition to the ever-growing list of buzzwords in the tech industry. However, unlike many of those items, observability does refer to an important concept—namely, the ability to understand a system’s…
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Erin Baez / September 9

Serverless Deployment: How It Works and Practical Examples

Serverless deployment is the latest trend in the cloud arena. You have your code available, but it’s only executed when a request is made for it. It’s all provisioned within milliseconds and discarded afterward. You…
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Erin Baez / September 8

Log Visualization: How and Why To Bring Your Logs To Life

Understanding what’s going on with your applications is critical. Without insight into the state of your application, you can’t tell if there were any problems, such as downtime issues, code errors, or latency. If you…
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Erin Baez / September 2

Microservices in Java: A How-To With Practical Examples

Microservices are the cool new kids on the block. Whether you’re not yet sold on the idea of a distributed system or if you just can’t get enough of it, I’ve got you covered. This…
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Erin Baez / September 1

Everything You Need to Know About Linux CPU Load

Whether you’re running a server for an application or just your local machine, you want your computer running its best. That’s why you should make sure to monitor your computer’s CPU, disk, and memory usage.…
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Erin Baez / August 25

Log Metrics: 5 Things You Can Learn From Your Log Files

Regular readers of the Scalyr blog are familiar with our “Getting Started Logging As Quickly As Possible” series. As its name suggests, the series teaches how to get up and running with logging using a…
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Erin Baez / August 19

DevOps vs. SRE? 4 Important Differences

Imagine in a work environment where there is no one to manage the IT infrastructure and operations, things can be very messy and difficult to handle but luckily enough, we have teams whose job is…
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Erin Baez / August 18

Log Monitoring: A Crash Course in the What, Why, and How

Several businesses of all sizes use log monitoring. There are several benefits, such as gaining more profound insights into the well-being of an application, localizing process bottlenecks, and detecting security vulnerabilities. So whether the business…
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