Erin Baez, Author at Scalyr

Erin Baez / April 7

What’s an Error Budget? Why Not to Aim for 100% Reliable

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 / April 2

Python Stack Trace: Understanding It and Using It to Debug

Being able to debug is a core skill for every developer. Do you use a print() statement regularly, or do you prefer to use debugging tools? Let’s find out how you can improve your debugging…
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Erin Baez / March 31

What Is AIOps? A Practical Explanation for Engineers

As an engineer, you recognize the complexity of today’s software systems. You probably don’t understand every individual part of your software stack, but you know there are many points of failure. I know that I…
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Erin Baez / March 26

Function as a Service (FaaS) Explained

Function as a service (FaaS), also known as “serverless” computing, is an option for deploying applications in the cloud. It’s been around for almost a decade and has been available from the mainstream cloud providers…
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Erin Baez / March 24

Monolithic vs Microservices: How to Choose in Any Situation

Depending on where you are in the microservice adoption cycle, you may just be starting with your microservices journey. Or maybe you’re further along and are now feeling the pain of moving to microservices too…
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Erin Baez / March 17

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 / March 10

Get Started Quickly With Kubernetes Logging

We’ve been writing about logging with programming languages like Go, C++, Java, Node.js, and others. And today the time has come to write about how to get started with logging in Kubernetes. This topic is…
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Erin Baez / March 3

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 / February 25

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 / February 18

Kubernetes Secrets: Your Complete Guide to Getting Started

Kubernetes has changed the way we deploy software. And there’s more to Kubernetes than meets the eye. That’s right; I’m talking about Kubernetes secrets. But let’s scale back for a moment here. Over recent years,…
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