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Unwiring High Cardinality - SRE Day 2023
Report from SRE Day 2023, where Piyush Verma - CTO Last9, gave a talk on Unwiring High Cardinality


How to restart Kubernetes Pods with kubectl
A simple reckoner on how to restart a Kubernetes pod with kubectl


This arctic winter — time to repay your tech debt
We're in a peak tech winter. What should engineering teams focus on when product velocity dwindles?

Levitate: Last9’s Managed TSDB Now on AWS Marketplace
Levitate - Last9's managed Prometheus Compatible TSDB is available on AWS Marketplace


PromQL Macros in Levitate
Define PromQL Macros to standardize complex PromQL queries in Levitate


GCP Managed Service For Prometheus vs. Levitate
A detailed comparison of Levitate and Google Managed Prometheus - Cost, Scale and Ease of Use


A case for Observability outside engineering teams
Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.


Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures
What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?


How we tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream
Using 'Sharding' to tame High Cardinality data for Levitate - Our Time Series Data Warehouse