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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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Erin Baez / December 22

Operational Analytics: A Complete Introductory Guide

You may have come across the term “analytics” without attaching much thought to it. For instance, to get into the college of your choice, you must have analyzed some number of colleges. This is because…
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Erin Baez / December 15

What Is Log Analysis? A Practical Explanation

Many—maybe most?—organizations treat their logging approach as a mere troubleshooting mechanism, failing to realize the tremendous opportunities that lie dormant in their log files. At the same time, their competitors may have realized the importance…
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